Archive: C.S. Lewis category
For the C.S. Lewis Society meeting this past Monday, we finished reading Surprised by Joy. Here are some of the quotes I liked:
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise ...
I just read C.S. Lewis's essays "Membership" and "The Inner Ring" for today's CSL Society meeting. In the former, Lewis says that "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." I couldn't agree more -- ...
This quote from C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves has been running through my mind a lot lately:
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give ...
For the C.S. Lewis Society meeting on Monday, we read "The Weight of Glory" (the essay itself, that is, not the whole collection of essays). It's amazing. Where to begin? I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so I'll just quote my two favorite parts:
I ...
Yesterday a friend asked me why I like C.S. Lewis so much. Good question. And good questions deserve thoughtful answers, so I've been thinking about it since then and have come up with the three biggest reasons:
1. Heaven. How can I describe this? There's a feeling ...
I finished reading C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce today, for the second time. In the last 40 pages I decided to start marking passages I liked. Of those 40 pages, only 11 don't have markings now. :) Here are some of the good quotes and the page ...
