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#1

“(stupid races don’t build spaceships!)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

#2

“Appropriately, his bird was the vulture. The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

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#3

“Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can be replaced by the confidence that comes from knowing you are loved whether you succeed or fail.”
― Leigh A. Bortins, The Core

tags: education, family

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#4

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

tags: art

19 likes

#5

“There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather be--but for some reason I still feel... homesick.”
― Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

tags: heaven, nostalgia

46 likes

#6

“There is often a great deal more of the past in the future than there was in the past itself at the time... one learns little by little that a thing is not over because it is not happening with noise and shape or outward sign.”
― Anne Thackeray Ritchie

6 likes

#7

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

2450 likes

#8

“Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.”
― Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

2 likes

#9

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7679 likes

#10

“Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?”
― Jonathan Rogers

23 likes

#11

“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

tags: evangelizing, jesus, scripture, truth

32 likes

#12

“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: douglass, frederick-douglass, freedom, literacy, reading, slavery

653 likes

#13

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13931 likes

#14

“Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....”
― Frederick Buechner

78 likes

#15

“You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: writing

69 likes

#16

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost

tags: laughter

3012 likes

#17

“I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.”
― Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

12 likes

#18

“Complain. Whine. Be a fusser. The story needs those as well, because every butt needs a joke, and the audience must laugh. Whether they (and God) laugh at or with us is up to you.”
― N.D. Wilson

tags: notes-from-the-tilt-a-whirl

4 likes

#19

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

5099 likes

#20

“We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.”
― Karen Glass

tags: books, classical-education, homeschool, reading, reading-books, wisdom

24 likes

#21

“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

tags: moral

592 likes

#22

“Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?

109 likes

#23

“... I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

tags: honor, pride, voice

7 likes

#24

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

2013 likes

#25

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading

3254 likes

#26

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: christianity

2465 likes

#27

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18080 likes

#28

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

13350 likes

#29

“He wanted to be alone, and he wanted to be found.”
― Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows

49 likes

#30

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27855 likes

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