Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.
Here are a few that caught my attention this week:
From Diane‘s Facebook:
“Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian, p. 80.
Ouch! Isn’t that so true? I’m so glad our salvation is by grace through faith rather than our rule-keeping. “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith” (Philippians 1:9).
Seen at Challies:
“A drop of praise is an unsuitable acknowledgment for an ocean of mercy.” —William Secker
From Warren Wiersbe’s With the Word commenting on Isaiah 17:
If the people you trust do not trust the Lord, their judgement may become your judgment (p. 462).
Scary thought — we’d better be careful whom we trust.
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Stray Thoughts 
“Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.” ~C.S. Lewis
Good one!!! Our pastor has been doing a fantastic series on grace. Those of us who read and think tend to fall into the “rules” trap rather easily.
I feel busted by the C. S. Lewis quote. “Keeping rules” can make me feel better, but without the proper motives behind rule-keeping, it profits nothing (I’m thinking of 1 Corinthians 13).
The last quote by Wiersbe reminds me of the sermon I heard yesterday on Truth Mirrors. We are sometimes apt to “advice shop” when we don’t like the advice we’ve been given and want to hear something different. We can usually find somebody who will tell us what we want to hear, whether it’s right or wrong.
All three quotes give me a little nudge to get me more squarely on the rails. Thanks!
GREAT advice from Warren Wiersbe! I LOVE that!
C.S. Lewis’s quote is certainly apt for Reformation Day! What a liar our works are, deceiving us into thinking we are righteous. And what a glorious truth that, though our good works are filthy rags, Christ offers us His righteousness by grace through faith.
The Wiersbe quote is good words to heed.
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