I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.
C.S. Lewis Quotes
Music and silence – how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell – though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express – no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, […]
We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favorite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading […]
I never read the papers. Why does anyone? They’re nearly all lies, and one has to wade through such reams of verbiage and “write up” to find out even what they’re saying.
There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan.
You do not love the Bourgeoisie. Of course: for they Begot you, bore you, paid for you, and punched your head; You work with them; they’re intimate as board and bed; How could you love them, meeting them thus every day? You love the Proletariat, the thin, far-away Abstraction which resembles any workman fed On […]
Because God created the Natural – invented it out of His love and artistry- it demands our reverence.
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest…
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the […]
