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In the legacy of C.S. Lewis, the Institute develops disciples who will articulate, defend, share, and live their faith in Christ in both personal & public life.
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"If you continue to love Jesus, nothing much can go wrong with you, and I hope you may always do so."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children
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"No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God's Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture." —
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For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There's no bargaining with Him. — C.S. Lewis
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"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."
⏤ C.S. Lewis
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I would rather be what God
chose to make me
than the most glorious
creature that I could think of;
For to have been born
in God's thought
and then made by God
is the dearest, grandest, and
most precious thing
in all thinking.
— George MacDonald, All Thinking
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2 (ESV)
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“Some say the cost of following Jesus is too high, but the cost of not following Jesus is infinitely greater.”
— Thomas Tarrants,
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The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' — Billy Graham
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C.S. Lewis, On Forgiveness
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To express our gratitude for the life, friendship, and ministry of
@RaviZacharias
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. — C.S. Lewis
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Today we mourn the loss of our dear friend and colleague,
@RandyDNewman
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We know he is hearing those words, "Well done..." and basking in the presence of the Lord he faithfully served. Please join us in lifting up his family during this difficult time.
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"Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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Emotional intensity is in itself no proof of spiritual depth. — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ― C.S. Lewis
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C.S. Lewis, On Forgiveness
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“If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.”
⏤ Vance Havner
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Consequently, atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark — C.S. Lewis
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There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. — D.L. Moody
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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"I am ceaselessly interested to know why anyone would—in the absence of definitive proof either way—actively prefer the idea that the universe is accidental and without purpose. Such a position seems to me to be far more intellectually difficult than mine"
⏤ Peter Hitchens
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"Hence, nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. — Joshua 1:9b
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. — G.K. Chesterton
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Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self. — C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity
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Our sincerest condolences to the Zacharias family and our dear friends at
@RZIMhq
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. ― C.S. Lewis
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We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. — Oswald Chambers
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Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. — C.S. Lewis
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. — C.S. Lewis
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“[Christ] is the ‘first fruits,’ the pioneer of life,’ He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.”
— C.S. Lewis, Miracles
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"I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives. After the first few steps in the Christian life, we realise that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God."
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world—a door that perhaps they never realized existed. —
@AlisterEMcGrath
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In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. — C.S. Lewis, Miracles
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It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost His crucifixion. — C.S. Lewis
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For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. — Mark 10:45
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“God is not hurried along in the Time-stream of this universe any more than an author is hurried along in the imaginary time of his own novel. He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass.”
— C.S. Lewis
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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. — Matthew 6:34 (ESV)
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But Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people don't know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions- to Christ. — C.S. Lewis
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"Look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then...we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.”
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@RaviZacharias
#ThankYouRavi
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“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need...we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.”
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@RaviZacharias
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The C.S. Lewis Fellows of Chicago and guests enjoy an evening with Dr. Malcolm Guite discussing imagination, faith, C.S. Lewis, and poetry.
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I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives. After the first few steps in the Christian life, we realise that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. — Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace
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How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them. ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him. — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. — C.S. Lewis
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. ― C.S. Lewis
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For the Christian tolerance is an inadequate virtue. We are not called to tolerate people, we are called to love them. — Jerram Barrs
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. — C.S. Lewis
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"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."
— C.S. Lewis
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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — C.S. Lewis
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"You needn't worry about not feeling brave. Our Lord didn't—see the scene in Gethsemane. How thankful I am that one God became man He did not choose to become a man of iron nerves; that would not have helped weaklings like you and me nearly so much."
⏤ C.S. Lewis
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Prayer is not about feeling. A lot can happen to make us feel like not praying...so don’t depend on your feelings. Pray anyway and expect God to hear you. — Rev. Alfred Sawyer
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“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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"I am ceaselessly interested to know why anyone would—in the absence of definitive proof either way—actively prefer the idea that the universe is accidental and without purpose. Such a position seems to me to be far more intellectually difficult than mine"
⏤ Peter Hitchens
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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of being a Christian, I warn you: you are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all. – C.S. Lewis
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"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died. — C.S. Lewis, Miracles
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