Peace and Perspective During the Christmas Production Season

Christian author C.S. Lewis ("Mere Christianity" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" are just a few of his titles) is well known for statements that help us keep perspective. Here, CPM staff shares a few of its favorites that speak directly to the church tech.

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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. - John 14:27 (NIV)

Christmas is coming. You are probably acutely aware of this fact as your team plans and preps.

Christian author C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia are just a few of his titles) is well known for statements that help us keep perspective. He’s one of the most quoted authors on Twitter, and you can find him there and on Pinterest at CSLewisDaily.

Here are 10 of Lewis’ books’ quotes, hand-chosen by the CPM staff, that might help take just a little of the Christmas planning pressure off and give you something calm to reflect upon. Even if it’s only for a moment or two.

1-"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” The Screwtape Letters (1942)

2- “Joy is the serious business of heaven.” Letters to Malcolm (1964)

3- “Everything is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” The Great Divorce (1945)

4- “The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” Collected Works of C.S. Lewis (1994)

5- “There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’" The Great Divorce (1945)

6-"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ." Mere Christianity (1952)

7- “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” God in the Dock (1970)

8- “Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...” Prince Caspian (1951)

9-"The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal." The Weight of Glory (1949)

10- “A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (1938)