God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called...

If you die, I’ll die.”But is you live, I’ll live.’- Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn’t necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to...

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you...

To put it another way, pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which...

In the midst of aches in the joints, anxiety over the payment of bills, concern for the safety of those you love, envy of the rich, fear of robbers, dog-weariness at the end of a...

We read to know we’re not alone.

We read to know we are not alone.

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn’t he? We hear Joy’s getting better….LEWIS: That’s not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the...