Temper and Truth
April 18, 2007
There is a thing called temper. It does colour one’s common life; the sky and landscape alter it; also it alters the sky and landscape. But temper is not the key of the universe; temper is not truth. A good-tempered man is not a saint; nor is a bad-tempered man necessarily a sinner. We all see truth as a light through very various windows; the question is, which of us wish to pull down the blinds?
G. K. Chesterton – Illustrated London News, Dec. 17, 1910
Making Plans
April 10, 2007
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J. R. R. Tolkien, from The Hobbit
Truth and Comfort
March 20, 2007
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C. S. Lewis
Seeing is believing
March 18, 2007
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
C. S. Lewis
Swimming Upstream
February 28, 2007
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The Five Deaths of the Faith” The Everlasting Man
Truth is Original
January 31, 2007
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
C. S. Lewis
Path of Wisdom
January 30, 2007
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Infinite Importance
January 25, 2007
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
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
Unanswerable Questions
January 21, 2007
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
C. S. Lewis
