"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

The Silver Chair

"All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than he looked for."

Perelandra

"Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't."

~Marguerite Bro

Forgiveness

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

C.S. Lewis on Forgiveness (in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses)

"Human beings judge one another by the external actions they see. God judges them by their moral choices. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. "

Mere Christianity

Happy Easter!

"Easter not only happened; it happens. It is not only a past event to be celebrated with new hats and hallelujahs; it is an eternally present fact to be appropriated by faith and obedience."

~Leonard Griffith

"It's the job that's never started that takes longest to finish."

~J. R. R. Tolkien

"I think every one who has some vague belief in God, until he becomes a Christian, has the idea of an exam, or of a bargain in his mind. The first result of real Christianity is to blow that idea into bits."

Mere Christianity

Word of the Day

fallible \FAL-uh-bul\, adjective:

1. Liable to make a mistake.

As in...

"But human beings are fallible. We know we all make mistakes."
-- Robert S. McNamara, "et al.", Argument Without End

Yup...that would be me. Human, through and through.