![]() … It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Lewis: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. Pinegar, October 1982, “Faith-The Force of Life” C.S. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life-the life God is sending one day by day” ( They Stand Together: The Letters of C. “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. Ashton, October 1979, “Progress Through Change” via Pixabay C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, New York: MacMillan Co., 1960, p. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace” (C. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of-throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. Smith, October 1979, “Women for the Latter Day” C.S. Lewis, ed., London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd., 1956, p. So your job is the one for which all others exist” ( Letters of C. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? … We wage war in order to have peace, we work in order to have leisure, we produce food in order to eat it. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, and governments, etc. ![]() “ is surely in reality the most important work in the world. Lewis” and “Screwtape Letters.” If you haven’t had a chance to discover these literary gems, here’s a little taste of some that have popped up over the pulpit in Salt Lake over the last forty years or so: C.S. Some of his best works are “Mere Christianity,” followed by “Letters of C.S. Not in a preacher sense, but in his desire to really dive into Christianity and apply it to life. Well, Lewis wrote a lot more than just Chronicles of Narnia. You see, Lewis was a very religious man. If you’ve only read “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” you might be wondering what four kids in a fantasy world have to do with the gospel. ![]() Not in person, of course, but because he has been referenced in talk after talk. Lewis has shown up at LDS General Conference on a consistent basis.
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