Apr 17, 2004 22:00
"'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan.
'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth. Be content.'"
C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask--half our great theological and metaphysical problemss--are like that.
A Grief Observed
"Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when you cut it."
C.S. Lewis
"Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god; which of course can be re-stated in the form 'begins to be a demon the moment he begins to be a god.' This balance seems to me an indispensable safeguard. If we ignore it, the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God."
C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
"I am rather sick of the modern assumption that, for all events, 'WE,' the people, are never responsible: it is always our rulers, or ancestors, or parents, or education, or anybody but precious 'US.' WE are apparently perfect and blameless. Don't you believe it."
C.S. Lewis
Letters to an American Lady
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken....(but) the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of and perturbations of love is Hell."
C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves
"If we do not believe in decent behaviour, why should we be so anxious to make excuses for not having behaved decently?"
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
"There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why he used material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it."
C.S.Lewis
Mere Christianity
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."
C.S. Lewis
The Case for Christianity
interesting stuff.
Levi S. Bagdanov