"Even if we are killed, I would rather be killed fighting for Narnia than grow old and stupid at home." -- C.S. Lewis,The Last Battle
"She said earnestly and yet in her sweetest, tenderest way, 'Oh, my darling Katy! What you need is such a living, personal love of Christ to make the thought of being where He is so delightful as to fill your mind wiht the single thought!'" -- Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward, p. 38
"'Aslan,' said Lucy, 'You're bigger.'
'That is because you are older, little one,' he answered.
'Not because you are?'
'I am not. But every year you grow you will find me bigger.'" -- C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
"The command to praise is a righteous command because God is the most infinitely valuable person in the whole universe, and not to praise Him would be cosmic treason and a moral violation of the highest good." -- Brian Borgman, Feelings and Faith, p. 176
"For she does not pretend not to grieve, but always says, 'It is repining that dishonors God, not grief.'" -- Stepping Heavenward, p. 211
"My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dunghill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist, therefore, and tell us what you propose." -- C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
"He turned and saw, pacing beside him, taller than the horse, a Lion. The horse did not seem to be afraid of it or else could not see it. It was from the Lion that the light came. No on ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful... But after one glance at the Lion's face, he slipped out of the saddle and fell at its feet. He couldn't say anything but then he didn't want to say anything, and he knew he needn't say anything." -- The Horse and His Boy
"But the sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God. It proves a tonic to the system, and is actually a blessing. No on can truly appreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion. -- Martin Duggard, Into Africa
"He was twenty-five years old, a squatty, dogged Civil War vet who fought for the blue and gray, but had otherwise achieved nothing remarkable in his lifetime. In fact, Stanley's life to that point was notable only for its mediocrity. He had tried and been found wanting as a soldier, sailor, gold miner, son, and lover. Yet there seemed no limit to the endeavors he was willing to attempt, then abruptly discard, without noteworthy accomplishment." -- Into Africa
"There is nothing about God's being, nature or ways which embarrasses us more than His gentleness... God's gentleness is somehow awesome and overwhelming to our minds. It catches us off balance and staggers us by its very wonderfulness." -- Maurice Roberts, The Thought of God, p. 16
"The most sublime of God's works are not His prodigious acts of power but His acts of grace... What, after all, is the highest expression of God's greatness and glory? It is not His outward displays of vast energy in the material world, wonderful as these are, but His inward acts of grace, performed silently in the hearts and lives of men." -- The Thought of God, p. 19
"And God saves none against His will... It is a secret exercise of omnipotence on the hidden man of the heart coaxing and alluring him to salvation and glory by Christ. It is always effectual but it is never brute strength." -- The Thought of God, p. 21
"Perhaps we are too frequently guilty of limiting God to methods of blessing us which are according to our own understanding." -- The Thought of God, p. 21
"Because, this is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to one so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear." Reepicheep, C. S. Lewis,The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.." -- Reepicheep, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"'Oh, Aslan,' said Lucy. 'Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?'
'I shall be telling you all the time,' said Aslan. 'But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.'" The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"'I daren't come and drink,' said Jill.
'Then you will die of thirst,' said the Lion.
'Oh dear!' said Jill, coming another step nearer. 'I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.'
'There is no other stream,' said the Lion." -- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
"You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie." Puddleglum, The Silver Chair
"You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do." -- Puddleglum,The Silver Chair
"Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things -- trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side, even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." -- Puddleglum, The Silver Chair
"Addie said it was like the thrill she got shoving a raw plucked chicken into the oven and knowing that in a little while she'd have a soul-satisfying entree. It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry." -- Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"By spiritual elevation we do not... refer to the boisterous movement of the arms which in some circles appears to be deemed essential to public worship." The Thought of God
"It is unquestionably one of the tragic fruits of our fallen nature that we can grow in theological knowledge without growing perceptibly in appreciation of what that knowledge means." The Thought of God
"The Bible's message to us involves the breathtakingly good news that 'God is love.' Such a statement, were we not made of stone, would be so welcome to us in this dark world of misery that we should run to trumpet it from the housetops. Only our chronic deafness makes us so unresponsive to such transcendent glad tidings... when we still our minds to hear the good news of God's love, it beggars all our thoughts and swallows up all our fears. If God is love then every anxiety of believers is a lie. Over all the carange of war and above the ghastly spectacle of human woe, over every helmet of the warrior and garment rolled in blood there is the rainbow of God's covenanted grace. There is meaning to the most random events in life. There is a benign and wise Father in, through and over all things, even things filled with pain, suffering, and death." --The Thought of God, ch. 10
"Why else should these inspired writers call on inanimate nature to leap up in a chorus of song except to surprise us out of our inattention to the great goodness of God towards us in the gospel? Knowing our minds to be nine-tenths asleep to God's love, therefore, they aim to startle us from our lack of appreciation by calling on all nature, as it were, to sound a cannonade." --The Thought of God, ch. 10
"Let the believer think much and often of the love Christ." -- The Thought of God
"Let us recall with deepest mortification that if Christ is my life, I was His death... So let every believer think and ponder often in his heart till the fire burns and the heart of stone melts in solemn appreciation of what we owe to Him whose Name is above every name that ever shall be." -- The Thought of God
"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin -- to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours -- closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid -- but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds." -- J.R.R. Tolkien,The Fellowship of the Ring
"To run away from Jesus is to turn away from the fountain of all grace and love. To be religious but not crown Christ as Lord of all is to insult God and injure ourselves eternally." -- The Thought of God, ch. 11
"She said earnestly and yet in her sweetest, tenderest way, 'Oh, my darling Katy! What you need is such a living, personal love of Christ to make the thought of being where He is so delightful as to fill your mind wiht the single thought!'" -- Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward, p. 38
"'Aslan,' said Lucy, 'You're bigger.'
'That is because you are older, little one,' he answered.
'Not because you are?'
'I am not. But every year you grow you will find me bigger.'" -- C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
"The command to praise is a righteous command because God is the most infinitely valuable person in the whole universe, and not to praise Him would be cosmic treason and a moral violation of the highest good." -- Brian Borgman, Feelings and Faith, p. 176
"For she does not pretend not to grieve, but always says, 'It is repining that dishonors God, not grief.'" -- Stepping Heavenward, p. 211
"My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dunghill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist, therefore, and tell us what you propose." -- C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
"He turned and saw, pacing beside him, taller than the horse, a Lion. The horse did not seem to be afraid of it or else could not see it. It was from the Lion that the light came. No on ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful... But after one glance at the Lion's face, he slipped out of the saddle and fell at its feet. He couldn't say anything but then he didn't want to say anything, and he knew he needn't say anything." -- The Horse and His Boy
"But the sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God. It proves a tonic to the system, and is actually a blessing. No on can truly appreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion. -- Martin Duggard, Into Africa
"He was twenty-five years old, a squatty, dogged Civil War vet who fought for the blue and gray, but had otherwise achieved nothing remarkable in his lifetime. In fact, Stanley's life to that point was notable only for its mediocrity. He had tried and been found wanting as a soldier, sailor, gold miner, son, and lover. Yet there seemed no limit to the endeavors he was willing to attempt, then abruptly discard, without noteworthy accomplishment." -- Into Africa
"There is nothing about God's being, nature or ways which embarrasses us more than His gentleness... God's gentleness is somehow awesome and overwhelming to our minds. It catches us off balance and staggers us by its very wonderfulness." -- Maurice Roberts, The Thought of God, p. 16
"The most sublime of God's works are not His prodigious acts of power but His acts of grace... What, after all, is the highest expression of God's greatness and glory? It is not His outward displays of vast energy in the material world, wonderful as these are, but His inward acts of grace, performed silently in the hearts and lives of men." -- The Thought of God, p. 19
"And God saves none against His will... It is a secret exercise of omnipotence on the hidden man of the heart coaxing and alluring him to salvation and glory by Christ. It is always effectual but it is never brute strength." -- The Thought of God, p. 21
"Perhaps we are too frequently guilty of limiting God to methods of blessing us which are according to our own understanding." -- The Thought of God, p. 21
"Because, this is a very great adventure, and no danger seems to one so great as that of knowing when I get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear." Reepicheep, C. S. Lewis,The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.." -- Reepicheep, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"'Oh, Aslan,' said Lucy. 'Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?'
'I shall be telling you all the time,' said Aslan. 'But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.'" The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"'I daren't come and drink,' said Jill.
'Then you will die of thirst,' said the Lion.
'Oh dear!' said Jill, coming another step nearer. 'I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.'
'There is no other stream,' said the Lion." -- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
"You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie." Puddleglum, The Silver Chair
"You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do." -- Puddleglum,The Silver Chair
"Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things -- trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side, even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." -- Puddleglum, The Silver Chair
"Addie said it was like the thrill she got shoving a raw plucked chicken into the oven and knowing that in a little while she'd have a soul-satisfying entree. It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry." -- Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
"By spiritual elevation we do not... refer to the boisterous movement of the arms which in some circles appears to be deemed essential to public worship." The Thought of God
"It is unquestionably one of the tragic fruits of our fallen nature that we can grow in theological knowledge without growing perceptibly in appreciation of what that knowledge means." The Thought of God
"The Bible's message to us involves the breathtakingly good news that 'God is love.' Such a statement, were we not made of stone, would be so welcome to us in this dark world of misery that we should run to trumpet it from the housetops. Only our chronic deafness makes us so unresponsive to such transcendent glad tidings... when we still our minds to hear the good news of God's love, it beggars all our thoughts and swallows up all our fears. If God is love then every anxiety of believers is a lie. Over all the carange of war and above the ghastly spectacle of human woe, over every helmet of the warrior and garment rolled in blood there is the rainbow of God's covenanted grace. There is meaning to the most random events in life. There is a benign and wise Father in, through and over all things, even things filled with pain, suffering, and death." --The Thought of God, ch. 10
"Why else should these inspired writers call on inanimate nature to leap up in a chorus of song except to surprise us out of our inattention to the great goodness of God towards us in the gospel? Knowing our minds to be nine-tenths asleep to God's love, therefore, they aim to startle us from our lack of appreciation by calling on all nature, as it were, to sound a cannonade." --The Thought of God, ch. 10
"Let the believer think much and often of the love Christ." -- The Thought of God
"Let us recall with deepest mortification that if Christ is my life, I was His death... So let every believer think and ponder often in his heart till the fire burns and the heart of stone melts in solemn appreciation of what we owe to Him whose Name is above every name that ever shall be." -- The Thought of God
"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin -- to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours -- closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid -- but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds." -- J.R.R. Tolkien,The Fellowship of the Ring
"To run away from Jesus is to turn away from the fountain of all grace and love. To be religious but not crown Christ as Lord of all is to insult God and injure ourselves eternally." -- The Thought of God, ch. 11
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