Groaning of Creation

“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over… Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)

Birth of a Friendship

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’”

C. S. Lewis

Supreme Strength

“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
G. K. Chesterton – The Man Who was Thursday, 1908

Durable Happiness

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

C. S. Lewis

He who seeks . . .

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring

Aim at Heaven – Aim at Earth

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

C. S. Lewis

Heaven?

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Food and Cheer and Song

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Harassed Hedonism

“. . . we have a suffocating sense of luxury and no sense at all of liberty. All the pleasure-hunters seem to be themselves hunted. All the children of fortune seem to be chained to the wheel. There is very little that really even pretends to be happiness in all this sort of harassed hedonism.”

G. K. Chesterton 4/28/1928

Happiness and Peace

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because if it is not there. There is no such thing.”

C. S. Lewis , 1898 – 1963