One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the universe – a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the power behind death and disease and sin. The difference is that Christianity thinks this Dark Power […]
C.S. Lewis Quotes
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which ‘permits, invites, or compels’ good reading.
To enjoy a book… I find I have to treat it as a sort of hobby and set about it seriously. I begin by making a map on one of the end leafs; then I put in a genealogical tree or two. Then I put a running headline at the top of each page. Finally […]
You really lose a lot by never reading books again.
There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or “Tristam Shandy” or Shakespeare’s Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he ‘has read’ them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that […]
So the body. There’s no living with it till we recognise that one of its functions in our lives is to play the part of buffoon. Until some theory has sophisticated them, every man, woman and child in the world knows this. The fact that we have bodies is the oldest joke there is… The […]
Man has held three views of his body. First, there is that of those ascetic Pagans who called it the prison or the “tomb” of the soul, and of Christians like Fisher to whom it was a “sack of dung,” food for worms, filthy, shameful, a source of nothing but temptation to bad men and […]
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
