Justin

“Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "When God arrives (and only then) the half-gods can remain." Left to themselves they either vanish or become demons.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.”
― Peter Tremayne, Shroud for the Archbishop

“If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid.”
― Q

“As Robert Mulholland says: “Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to be raised to God into the wholeness of life in the image of Christ. . . . So the process of being conformed to the image of Christ takes place right there at that point of our unlikeness to Christ.”
― Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation