mere adjectives

"They wanted, as we say, 

to 'call their souls their own.' 

But that means to live a lie, 

for our souls are not, in fact, our own. 

They wanted some corner in the universe of which they could say to God,

 'This is our business, not yours.' 

But there is no such corner. 

They wanted to be nouns, 

but they were, and eternally must be,

mere adjectives."

-c.s. lewis

"He has

paid us

the 

intolerable

compliment

of loving us,

in the deepest, 

most tragic,

most inexorable

sense."

-c.s. lewis

"God might have arrested this problem by miracle...

but this would have been to decline the problem

which God had set himself when he created the world,

the problem of expressing his goodness

through the 

total drama

of a world containing free agents,

in spite of, and by means of, 

their rebellion against him."

-c.s lewis

(quotes from "The Problem of Pain" by C.S. Lewis)

not less than everything

these are quotes i wrote down in my moleskin after reading 'A Severe Mercy' by Sheldon Vanauken.

'tormented thought & worn-out shoes/take all & dwell therein'

-julian

to be a christian: 'a condition of complete simplicity/costing not less than everything.'

-c.s. lewis

'thus, rather improbably, began what i must call, judging by all others i've known of, a rather remarkable love. its remarkableness lay, not in our falling quite desperately in love--many have experienced that glory--but in what we made of that love.'

-sheldon vanauken