Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
Brandon SandersonTag: life seeds power light destruction fire potential warmth fragility kings illuminate flames candle deadly rampage bonfires embryonic potency
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonaldTag: subconscious desire sehnsucht potency liminal Іοϋλίαν-ποθω
I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could.
C.S. LewisTag: dragons allegory narnia reverence potency past-watchful-dragons
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