February 2012
12 posts
6 tags
“The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be...”
– The Weight of Glory (1942)
Feb 29th
25 notes
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“Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that’s all the life we have...”
– Till We Have Faces (1956)
Feb 24th
35 notes
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“God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
Feb 22nd
23 notes
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
Feb 21st
83 notes
8 tags
“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
Feb 21st
25 notes
6 tags
“We must go on to recognize the real Giver. It is madness not to. Because, if we...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
Feb 16th
96 notes
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“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
Feb 15th
93 notes
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“Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
Feb 14th
49 notes
5 tags
“The real trouble is that ‘kindness’ is a quality fatally easy to...”
– The Problem of Pain (1940)
Feb 8th
29 notes
5 tags
“I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so...”
– Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Feb 7th
36 notes
6 tags
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of...”
– Rehabilitations (1939)
Feb 7th
7 notes
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“All loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that [Hell] contains, if...”
– The Great Divorce (1945)
Feb 1st
22 notes