“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

(via thatkindofwoman)

Depth under depth of self-love and self-admiration. Pride! It was through Pride that the devil became the devil; it is the complete anti-God state of mind. Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not. Pride is a spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C.S. Lewis (via craigtowens)

inspiredbyjesuslove:

Do an art of jrr Tolkien and CS Lewis being bros.

jabberwocky1996:

artofhitjim:

bonus:

@sothisisthehobbit @spinneryesteryear @clarafy @nightcrawler-fan

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

notreewaits:

snakesaredelicious:

doctorbluesmanreturns:

stealingmyplaceinthesun:

all those obviously-allegorical christian fantasy stories are like really really cringy bible fanfiction

I’m not sure how Lewis managed to thread the needle to have a blatant allegory that’s also a good story, but people have been trying to copy him for decades with no success.

What about Tolkien?

I think he said his work was Catholic but not allegorical

Yeah I think there is a quote of his floating around, about how he started writing the stories as their own thing but realized that he has subconsciously tied in Catholic themes and beliefs into the world’s method and plot.

wrathofgnon:

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
— C.S. Lewis

yourdailyinspiration:

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.”

—

C. S. Lewis

by-grace-of-god:

“Remember that He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted.”

— C. S. Lewis

lastingwells:

“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good. Do you know what I mean? On every level of our life… we are always harking back to some occasion which seemed to us to reach perfection, setting that up as a norm, and depreciating all other occasions by comparison. … God shows us a new facet of the glory, and we refuse to look at it because we’re still looking for the old one.”

— C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm (via zacheway)