Substitutes for Joy
March 31, 2007
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
C. S. Lewis
Enjoyment
March 10, 2007
“It is always wiser to consider not so much why a thing is not enjoyable, as why we ourselves do not enjoy it.”
G. K. Chesterton, (Illustrated London News, Feb. 28, 1931)
Heaven?
January 5, 2007
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
Humility and Pride
January 4, 2007
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
Food and Cheer and Song
January 4, 2007
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
