July 24, 2012
"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. When it becomes really necessary (i.e. for our spiritual life, not for controversy or curiosity) to know whether a particular passage is rightly translated or is Myth (but of course Myth specially chosen by God from among countless Myths to carry a spiritual truth) or history, we shall no doubt be guided to the right answer. But we must not use the Bible as a sort of Encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons."

— C.S. Lewis, from a letter to Mrs. Johnson, November 8 1952 

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July 17, 2012
"The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property: that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt…And pain is not only immediately recognisable evil, but evil impossible to ignore. We can rest contentedly in our sin and in our stupidities; and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating, will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain 

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August 30, 2011
"

‘Are you not thirsty?’ said the Lion.

‘I am dying of thirst,’ said Jill.

‘Then drink,’ said the Lion.

‘May I — could I — would you mind going away while I do?’ said Jill.

The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic.

‘Will you promise not to — do anything to me, if I do come?’ said Jill.

‘I make no promise,’ said the Lion.

Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer. ‘Do you eat girls?’ she asked.

‘I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms,’ said the Lion. It didn’t say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

‘I daren’t come and drink,’ said Jill.

‘Then you will die of thirst,’ said the Lion.

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— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (via crypte, theoriesovercoffee) (via theminorprophet) (via darkuncle)

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