tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post821917188778204953..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Plantinga on the life of faithRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-13180672414068422522018-10-02T11:29:11.952-04:002018-10-02T11:29:11.952-04:00Steve has written on Plantinga's testimony on ...Steve has written on Plantinga's testimony on times when he has felt God's nearness in special ways. I forgot which blog it is, but I've got a link to excerpts from that Spiritual Autobiography of Plantinga <a href="http://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/07/christian-philosopher-alvin-plantingas.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>.<br /><br />I'm also reminded of these quotes from C.S. Lewis:<br /><br />Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity chapter 11<br />[A larger excerpt of that discussion on faith by Lewis can be found <a href="http://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2015/09/faith-according-to-cs-lewis-in-mere_29.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>].<br /><br />"That is why daily praying and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed." —C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity book III chapter 11<br /><br />"...the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done..."- C. S. Lewis to "Mrs. Lockley", The Letters of C.S. Lewis page 395<br /><br />"A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it."- C.S. Lewis<br />Reflections on the Psalms, page 7<br />http://books.google.com/books?id=ngmCh73UJ-UC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=feed&f=false<br /><br />There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. Man! Ye see it in smaller matters. Did ye never know a lover of books that with all his first editions and signed copies had lost the power to read them? Or an organiser of charities that had lost all love for the poor? It is the subtlest of all the snares.- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce<br />http://www.str.org/blog/dont-neglect-god-sake-apologetics#.WXvL3VGQysz<br /><br />All that about the other Ransom was nonsense. He was quite aware of the danger of madness, and applied himself vigorously to his devotions and his toilet. Not that madness mattered much. Perhaps he was mad already, and not really on Malacandra but safe in bed in an English asylum. - C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, chapter 9ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.com