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Quotes from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, & Charles Williams — everyday.

Oxford, England

Joined September 2016

 

 

  

 

Short cuts make long delays Tolkien

 

 

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. CSLewis

 

 

 

 All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Owen Barfield

 

 

 

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire? CS Lewis

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. CS Lewis

 Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties. CS Lewis

 

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can. Tolkien

 

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. CS Lewis

 

 

 

 All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. Tolkien

 

 

 

Morality exists to be transcended. We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully. CS Lewis

 

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it. Owen Barfield

 

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J.R.R. Tolkien

 If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. Tolkien

 

Thomas Merton ‏@MertonDaily

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.