Job 36:16-19

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 Man oh man. What has become of my life? Overall, my life is fabulous. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, I feel so full […]

Romans 8:28-30

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. -Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice Sometimes I’m hurting, and it feels like God’s holding me in […]

Proverbs 5:6

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World I am so full of indifference that I feel as if I might be smothered by it without even batting an eye. There used to be days […]

Proverbs 14:30

‘And now!’ said the Tragedian with a hackneyed gesture of despair. ‘Now, you need me no more? ‘But of course not!’ said the Lady; and her smile made me wonder how both the phantoms could refrain from crying out with joy. ‘What needs could I have? I am full now, not empty. I am in […]

Proverbs 16:1-3

Your patient will, of course, have picked up the notion that he must submit with patience to the Enemy’s will. What the Enemy means by this is primarily that he should accept with patience the tribulation which has actually been dealt out to him—the present anxiety and suspense. It is about this that he is […]

Song of Songs 8:4

[God]‘s demand on humans takes the form of a dilemma; either complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy. -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Like a lot of people, I started dating before I really knew what I was supposed to be doing. I made a lot of mistakes physically, and even more emotionally. Since coming to Christ, […]

Leviticus 9:14

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgments–’I ought to do this’–’I ought not to do that’–’This is good’–’That is evil.’ Two views have been held about moral judgments. Some people think that when we make them we are not using our Reason, but are employing some different power. Other people think […]

Mark 12:29-30

We begin to notice, besides our particular sinful acts, our sinfulness; begin to be alarmed not only about what we do, but about what we are. -C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Blargh. Fitness is hard, and that’s hard for me to write down. I feel embarrassed whenever I admit this, but the whole athleticism thing seems […]

Psalm 127:1-2

For what we are trying to do is remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be ‘good’. We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way–centred on money or pleasure or ambition–and hoping, in spite of […]

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Does it not make a great difference whether I am, so to speak, the landlord of my own mind and body, or am only a tenant, responsible to the real landlord? If somebody else made me, for his own purposes, then I shall have a lot of duties which I should not have if I […]