“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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The Quote Is a Lie!
This post may contain affiliated links. I love C.S. Lewis. Lurve him. And I quote him incessantly — and misquote him apparently. This is one I’ve always believed was accurate. It sounds sort of like something he would say. Until you think about it for a minute and realize that new dreams and endeavors in […]
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Living a contented life
Today’s C.S. Lewis quote: The whole lesson of my life has been that no ‘methods of stimulation’ are of any lasting use. They are indeed like drugs—a stronger dose is needed each time and soon no possible dose is effective. We must not bother about thrills at all. Do the present duty—bear the present pain—enjoy […]
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Mud pies over infinite joy
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. […]
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Lewis on Letting Go
This post may contain affiliated links. This is a variation of a very popular C.S. Lewis quote. Lewis is, of course, highly quotable, but the context of the quotes is where the real meat lies. Lewis had an enormous correspondence, and one of his pen-pals was an American woman Mary Willis Shelburne. His letters to […]
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Blackmail of the wicked
This is from C.S. Lewis’s wonderful book on heaven, The Great Divorce. The first speaker is a guide to heaven, George MacDonald, and the second speaker is the narrator. “What some people say on Earth is that the final loss of one soul gives the lie to all the joy of those who are […]
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Screw your courage to the sticking place
My friend Erika Franz tipped me off to this amazing video series, C.S. Lewis Doodle. (The embedding feature is disabled, but do check it out.) I haven’t watched them all yet, but I’m impressed with with what I’ve seen so far in the two from The Screwtape Letters. Those videos use the amazing radio theater […]
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You’ll never finish
And that’s okay. It’s to be expected, actually. C.S. Lewis wrote, “The second enemy is frustration–the feeling that we shall not have time to finish. If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem […]
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Weaker brothers (and sisters)
A passage that came to mind while yielding for pedestrians in the parking lot, from The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: I think I warned you before that if your can’t be kept out of the Church, he ought to at least be violently attached to some party within it. I don’t mean on really […]
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Solitary musings on a Sunday
“No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in […]
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Impulses
For some reason, this passage resonated with me, particularly in thinking about the news of the day and politics — and movements and crusaders for causes of all stripes. “It is a mistake to think that some of our impulses — say mother love or patriotism — are good, and others, like sex or the […]
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