Lewis on the Christian Life Quotes

“one of the main things I’ve learned from Lewis is the importance of guileless and self-forgetful enjoyment. In other words, enjoying something simply because you enjoy it—losing yourself in some activity or hobby because it was made for you and you were made for it.”
― Joe Rigney, Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God

“The task of dovetailing the spiritual and physical histories of the world into each other is accomplished in the total act of creation itself. Our prayers, and other free acts, are known to us only as we come to the moment of doing them. But they are eternally in the score of the great symphony. Not “pre-determined”; the syllable pre lets in the notion of eternity as simply an older time.”
― Joe Rigney, Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God

“I cannot count the number of times I’ve been reading Lewis and felt as though someone had given him a map of my heart—a”
― Joe Rigney, Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did.”
― Joe Rigney, Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God