“Amphibians”
March 30, 2007
“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
C. S. Lewis
Leaving Without Regret
March 17, 2007
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
C. S. Lewis
Big Words
February 21, 2007
“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
C. S. Lewis
Durable Happiness
February 1, 2007
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
C. S. Lewis
Treasure Snatched Away
January 23, 2007
“Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
Aim at Heaven – Aim at Earth
January 10, 2007
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
C. S. Lewis
Those fleeting possessions . . .
December 27, 2006
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
G. K. Chesterton – Tremendous Trifles
Eternal vs. Temporal
December 10, 2006
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
C. S. Lewis
Body and Soul
December 7, 2006
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
C. S. Lewis
