The Inklings
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Quotes from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, & Charles Williams — everyday.
Oxford, England
Joined September 2016
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
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
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
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