A New Gift of Life

If every sunlit, sail crowded sea under blue heaven, flecked with wind chased white filled your soul, as with a new gift of life - think what sense of existence must be yours if He, whose thought has but fringed His garment with the gladness of such a show, were to make his home with …

The Knowing- More than the Thing Known

As the author of the 'Theologia Germanica' says, we may come to love knowledge—our knowing—more than the thing known: to delight not in the exercise of our talents but in the fact that they are ours, or even in the reputation they bring us.Every success in the scholar’s life increases this danger. If it becomes …

Creeping Christians

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ, because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his …

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly …

This Dazed and Dramatic Ignorance

"ONE of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard …

Settled Happiness vs. Joy, Pleasure and Merriment

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world; but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we always have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would …

A Time to Feed

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. — C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

The Spirit Strives With Our Spirit

A man will please God better by believing some things that are not told him, than by confining his faith to those things that are expressly said-said to arouse in us the truth-seeing faculty, the spiritual desire, the prayer for the good things which God will give to them who ask him."But is this not …

The Very Children of God

From a report of George MacDonald's sermon: "He was not here to make a fine sermon; he scorned that kind of thing; he was there to persuade them if he could to be the disciples of Christ, the very children of God; less than that was loss and ruin to the very essence of their …

How Hardly Things go Right

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.Alas, how hardly things go right!'Tis hard to watch on a summer night,For the sigh will come and the kiss will stay,And the summer night is a winter …