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Tremendous Trifles
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"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)"
Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM

 
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St. Francis Of As...
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"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM

 
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There is something of a harmony between the hearth and the firelight and my own first pleasure in his words about the brother fire;
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C.S. Lewis
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

G.K. Chesterton
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.”
G.K. Chesterton

C.S. Lewis
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

Peter Kreeft
“The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.”
Peter Kreeft

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