Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
C.S. LewisThe Happy Trinity is her home: nothing can trouble her joy.
She is the bird that evades every net: the wild deer that leaps every pitfall.
Like the mother bird to its chickens or a shield to the armed knight: so is the Lord to her mind, in His unchanging lucidity.
Bogies will not scare her in the dark: bullets will not frighten her in the day.
Falsehoods tricked out as truths assail her in vain: she sees through the lie as if it were glass.
The invisible germ will not harm her: nor yet the glittering sunstroke.
A thousand fail to solve the problem, ten thousand choose the wrong turning: but she passes safely through.
He details immortal gods to attend her: upon every road where she must travel.
They take her hand at hard places: she will not stub her toes in the dark.
She may walk among lions and rattlesnakes: among dinosaurs and nurseries of lionettes.
He fills her brim full with immensity of life: he leads her to see the world’s desire.
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
C.S. LewisHe Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
~C.S. Lewis~
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
C.S. LewisMots clés grief
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.
C.S. LewisMots clés friendship
It is not fatigue simply as such that produces the anger, but unexpected demands on a man already tired.
C.S. LewisMathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
C.S. LewisMots clés mathematics
The stars never lie, but Men and Beasts do.
C.S. LewisThe most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
C.S. LewisMots clés marriage
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