So, for all of that are all so enthusiastic about my Blog here is a little more to chew on and maybe think a little, I hope. :)
I do not know who the author of this little note is, it was added to a photograph I discovered on Pinterest. However, I do agree with his comments and admire C. S. Lewis very much.
I was just finishing reading The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
this morning, when my Twitter feed lit up with the nation stumbling over itself
to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy.
Then, a lone tweet from @winstoncoolidge stood out in my
timeline. “So today we hear about old people reminiscing
about where they were when C.S. Lewis died.” Huh?! What? By
Aslan’s mane, it’s the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis, too! I
literally discovered this with a C.S. Lewis book in my hand. (If that’s any
indication of how much of a fan I am…)
Now I’m no soul-reader, but I think it’s fairly safe to say that
the death of C.S. Lewis, just a few days shy of his 65th birthday, isn’t one to
be too heavily mourned. I mean, I think we’re all fairly sure where he’s ended
up.
A modern day literary saint meeting his maker isn’t something to
mourn. It’s something to celebrate! So celebrate I shall.
C.S. Lewis is BY FAR one of my all time favorite authors.
An intellectual and an apologist, he used fairy tales, mythology, poetry,
science fiction, children’s stories and scholarly essays to communicate the
depths of truth. What’s not to love? He’s worth reading and rereading and then
reading again.
So without further ado! Here
are some literary morsels to chew on in celebration of the life of C.S.
Lewis. (Oh, yeah, and sorry you died too JFK…)
1. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
2. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth
and you get neither.
3. A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship
Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on
the walls of his cell.
4.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and
those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
5. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to
make man a more clever devil.
6. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of
its victims may be the most oppressive.
7. We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress
means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the
man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
8. The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope,
soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
9. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but
to irrigate deserts.
10. Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same
story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of
us to see.
11. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales
again.
4 Comments:
Keep the posts coming! I added you to my bookmarks bar, so hopefully I'll remember to check in more often now.
Thank you, Kimmer,
Rex
Sadly and somewhat surprisingly, I know very little about Lewis and his writings, probably because of my lack of interest in Christianity, and his SFF novels never becoming more than fleeting blips on my radar. I'll make an attempt to learn a bit more based on your enthusiasm.
Try the Walter hooper interviews by Eric Metaxas on Socrates in the City programming on the Internet. You will learn a lot about CSL and they are entertaining.
Rex
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