A Grief Observed
It doesn’t really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist’s chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. – C.S. Lewis
The anti-God state of mind
The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. – C.S. Lewis
Experience
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn – Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis
The inauguration
Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root. – C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces.
Mere Christianity
I am rereading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. The book is adapted from a 1943 series of radio lectures broadcast during World War II. Periodically there are references that speak directly to a citizen during wartime. I just read one recently that seems as timely today as it was in 1943. “If God thinks this [...]
What number is green?
Today’s quote is inspired by my five year-old, Reagan. I had my back to him and I did not know he was working on a color by number picture. All I heard was “Dad what number is green? Hey Dad, what number is green?” It made me think of this quote: “Can a mortal [...]
I have been lacking in my posting so here is a double
This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. – C.S. Lewis “Have you ever seen someone pull a photo out of their wallet and argue about the supremacy of this [...]
Faith
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do the Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. -C.S. Lewis
More quote fun
They [people] are told they ought to love God. They cannot find any such feeling in themselves. What are they to do? The answer is the same as before. Act as if you did. Do not sit trying to manufacture feelings. Ask yourself, ‘If I were sure I loved God, what would I do?’ When [...]
Today’s Quote
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons — marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. [...]