Sermon Illustrations

Category: C.S. Lewis

  • There are two equal and

    There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased with both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the…

  • God whispers to us in

    God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world C.S. Lewis – 1898-1963 British author and theologianClick to TweetWebsite: The Problem of PainFrom the book “The Problem of Pain” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • “If God were good He

    “If God were good He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty, He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power or both.” C.S. Lewis – 1898-1963 British author and theologianClick to TweetFrom the book “The…

  • The Church exists for nothing

    The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose C.S. Lewis – 1898-1963 British author and theologianClick to…

  • “If God had granted all

    “If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?” C.S. Lewis – 1898-1963 British author and theologianClick to Tweet

  • If you asked twenty good

    If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is…

  • We are told to deny

    We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so contains an appeal to desire. If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly…

  • Indeed, if we consider the

    Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an…

  • We must not be troubled

    We must not be troubled by unbelievers when they say that this promise of reward makes the Christian life a mercenary affair. There are different kinds of reward. There is the reward which has no natural connexion with the things you do to earn it, and is quite foreign to the desires that ought to…

  • Do what they will, then,

    Do what they will, then, we remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy. But is there any reason to suppose that reality offers any satisfaction to it? “Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.” But I think it may be urged that this misses the point. A man’s…