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Alive to Wonder: Celebrating the Influence of C. S. Lewis is a collection of extended excerpts from John Piper’s corpus where Lewis’s fingerprints are most vividly seen, including a significant introduction from Piper specially written for this project. Piper calls it “the immeasurable moment” — that instance in reading when we come across a sentence or phrase that unleashes a new glimpse of...

“He liked his ideas to fit the truth as snugly as old slippers fit the feet.”15 Pride does not care about this fit. Pride wants other things to fit with it. Not the reverse. Humility submits to God’s willed reality and makes the effort to conform its ideas to Truth. The Sovereignty of God As we would expect, therefore, Lewis’s humility submitted to the sovereignty of God. Part of the objective reality outside himself to which Lewis submitted was the purposefulness of God. “You will certainly carry