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“The human heart will never wrinkle.”
― Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2
― Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
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