C.S. Lewis Institute

The King in his might loves justice.[a] You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! Psalm 99:4-5 (ESV)

“The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans... I love being an American...[but] I don’t love the rampant consumerism that treats God as a product to be marketed.” — Eugene Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir

“Even to love Our Lord, and certainly to call him Lord, and God, is a grace, and may bring more grace.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 250

"If we love God supremely, we shall live to him ultimately. If we love him with all our hearts, we shall serve him with all our souls." ⏤ Joseph Bellamy, "What Is Implied in Love to God" (1750)

“The outer and material is always, and of its own accord, the expression or representation of an inward and immaterial.” - Owen Barfield, Modern Idolatry

“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The consistent skeptic is skeptical of everything, including his own skepticism.” — Peter Kreeft

“Language becomes for us, not a tool invented by individual minds, but an echo reverberating from the source of all individual minds, of all individual selves.” - Owen Barfield, Modern Idolatry

You should stop what you’re doing and read The Force of Habit by Owen Barfield.

“The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.” — A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

"The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility. Every seeker after holiness needs to be on his guard, lest unconsciously what was begun in the spirit be perfected in the flesh, and pride creep in where its presence is least expected." — Andrew Murray, Humility