Garden of Hope: The Quotable Lewis

Friday 28 October 2011

The Quotable Lewis

I was going through my books the other day and found my book, "The Quotable Lewis" which have quotes from C.S. Lewis's books and essays that he wrote through out his life. So I though that it would be nice to go through the book and find quotes that I like and then make some comments of my own. So for the first one I found under the title of Grace. Lewis says:

" God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to recevie them" From Taliessin through Logress 1948.

Also on the same subject, St. Augustine says "God gives where He finds empty hands" A man whose hands are full of parcels can't recive a gift"- From Letters to an American Lady 1958.

I love these quotes because they are a reminder not to have our "hands" too full for God to fill them. That we should always be ready to have God fill our hands in any stage of life, for He can place something unexpected in them.

Stay tuned for next weeks Lewis Quote! :)

~RebeccA.

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Psalms 8

O Lord, our Lord, how majectic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you hve established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the advenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man to be mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yes you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominon over the works of you hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the path of the sea. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 1

Blessed in the man who walks not in the councel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Lord and on his law he meditaes day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yeilds its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all he does, he prospers. This wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the was of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.