Ben

“If they won’t write the kind of books we want to read,” Lewis told his friend, “we shall have to write them ourselves.”110”
― Joseph Loconte, A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18

“That’s what our system of government, defined by the separation of powers, is all about. It shouldn’t matter whether the president belongs to my party or to another one.”
― Jeff Flake, Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

“As we will see, it is their moral imagination that exerts a unique power: the proposition that every person is caught up in an epic contest between Light and Darkness.”
― Joseph Loconte, A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18

“It was a voice other than Reason that replied, ‘You could live. You could be. You could do. There’s a purpose you have to fulfil. You’d become more conscious of it every day you keep on living. There’s a task for you; a responsibility that is yours and only yours.’ ‘Good enough,’ I said. ‘I’ll get on with it.”
― Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive