Maxioms by C.s. Lewis
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any likenesses read more
Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any likenesses which He has impressed upon our natures or our states -- must be an imitation of God Incarnate. Our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the divine life operating under human conditions.
Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.
Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.
Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that read more
Feast of the Conversion of Paul 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 to you to be saying something quite academic and theoretical. You would be surprised if you knew how soon one begins to feel the shortness of the tether: of how many things, even in middle life, we have to say, "No time for that", "Too late now" and "Not for me". But Nature herself forbids you [young people] to share that experience. A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age, is that of leaving futurity in God's hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain
