Michelle

“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Why does it matter that she be educated in the faith? If we can just get past our indignation about how she should learn, it might behoove us to ask why Paul thinks it’s important that she learn at all… And I do think he answers that question: It’s because when Eve was deceived and believed the wrong thing, look at the incredible destruction it caused. Eve was deceived—her intellect fell into error—but that wasn’t Adam’s problem in that moment. He wasn’t deceived at all—but he went with Eve anyway.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity

“The good man’s past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man’s past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“When a man rises and says, “I believe the Bible” and then ignores the teachings of the Bible on his own pet subjects, he is rejecting the Word more insidiously than outright disbelief”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy