February 2012
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and...”
– C.S. LEWIS (via the-wretched-harmony)
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“Lewis… was profoundly aware of the deep and interrelated crises of spiritual...”
– Malcolm Guite in The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (via thebardling)
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“28 March 1946. Present Jack and I, Christopher, Humphrey, Colin Hardie, Gervase...”
– W. H. Lewis (Brother of C. S. Lewis) in a diary entry about an Inklings meeting. (via memento-morrie)
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“Don’t you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the...”
– C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
January 2012
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“Courage is not a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point,...”
– CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (via beginninginthemiddle)
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“I came to the conclusion that Lord of the Rings was, most probably, the best...”
– Neil Gaiman’s Journal (via lavavolavka)
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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via tuerletemps)
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“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would...”
– C.S. Lewis (via formlessforce)
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“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via lonelystarlight)
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“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose...”
– Learning in War-Time (1939)
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“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (via juniperbees)
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“If fairy-story as a kind is worth reading at all
it is worthy to be written for...”
– JRR Tolkien (via wood-wife)
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“Friendship with Lewis compensates for much, and besides giving constant pleasure...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien on C.S. Lewis (via weareallpsyche)
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At...”
– Mere Christianity (1952)
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“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a...”
– Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit (via substanceandevidence)
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Inklings at Oxford
adriancamm:
Oxford is one of my favourite places in the world.
It is like stepping back in time - from the ancient buildings and grand architecture, Christ Church College, to the feel of an important sense of history and ancient traditions; time seems to slow down.
This visit, among many other things, I visited The Bear Inn and the Eagle and Child Pub, two of the oldest pubs in Oxford. The...
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“I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live...”
– C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #6))
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“The main difficulty that prevents us from breaking through the idols to the...”
– Owen Barfield Saving the Appearances (via justregulartype)
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“I think that every prayer which is sincerely made even to a false god or to a...”
– Letters of C.S. Lewis (1952)