Words of Wisdom.

June 16, 2020
Day 1,347

     I have this little book I bought online called, "C.S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature." I love it. Well, I love C.S. Lewis. He's my favorite author of all time. I love him because he writes the truth beautifully. I love the way he uses words. When I read his words, I feel as though I'm in the a quiet room with a cup of tea, a crackling fire in the fireplace, rain on the windows, and nothing but time. I feel as though I'm in the presense of a great man who has great wisdom to impart.

     I wanted to write just a few of my favorite words from my book here:

"'You have a traitor there, Aslan,' said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said."

"We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

"Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."

"If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things--praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and game of darts--not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."

"It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do. Let the thrill go--let it die away--go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow--and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time. But if you decide to make thrills your regular diet and try to prolong them artifically, they will all get weaker and weaker, and fewer and fewer, and you will be a bored, disillusioned old man for the rest of your life. It is because so few people understand this that you may find many middle-aged men and women maundering about their lost youth, at the very age when new horizons ought to be appearing and new doors opening all round them. It is much better fun to learn to swim than to go on endlessly (and hopelessly) trying to get back the feeling you had when you first went paddling as a small boy."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."

"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."


Thankful for words of wisdom.