Why?

Jared has recently introduced me to a new musical artist...Why? (specifically the CD "Alopecia"). Not something to which I would normally gravitate but I think my friend, Jack, would enjoy it...especially the poetry of it.

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that."

~ A Grief Observed

"The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the life of the body [of Christ] encourages. ...Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality."

~ The Weight of Glory

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

~Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Welcome, child," He said.
"Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger."
''That is because you are older, little one," answered He.
"Not because you are?"
''I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."

~ Prince Caspian

"But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you've taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man."

The Case For Christianity (C.S. Lewis)

"Now we cannot discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder.
But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say,
'You must do this...I can't.'"

Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)

Press on...

Philippians 3:12-14

"Not that I have obtained all this or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ took hold of me.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

"To look is one thing. To see what you look at is another. To understand what you see is a third. To learn from what you understand is still something else.
But to act on what you learn is all that really matters."

~Bits & Pieces

"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.

Brush with greatness

While watching Jeopardy, I learned that Galileo Galilei, the father of observational astronomy and father of modern experimental science, was born on Feb. 15, 1564...exactly 400 years before me. I'm going to consider that a good sign.

"It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed; especially if you are lucky enough to have a fire in your room."


The Silver Chair