Shaina Herrmann

“Anything we do to hinder a dear child from coming to Jesus greatly displeases our dear Lord. He cries to us, "Stand off. Let them alone. Let them come to Me, and forbid them not.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Come Ye Children

“Quintilian suggests literatura as the proper translation of Greek grammatike (II, i), and literatura, though it does not mean ‘literature’, included a good deal more than literacy. It included all that is required for ‘making up’ a ‘set book’: syntax, etymology, prosody, and the explanation of allusions. Isidore makes even history a department of Grammar (I, xli–xliv). He would have described the book I am now writing as a book of Grammar. Scholarship is perhaps our nearest equivalent.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“But do you want to be efficient like a machine, or fruitful like a tree?”
― Douglas Wilson, Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth

“In popular usage Grammatica or Grammaria slid into the vague sense of learning in general; and since learning is usually an object both of respect and suspicion to the masses, grammar, in the form grammary comes to mean magic. Thus in the ballad of King Estmere, ‘My mother was a western woman learned in grammarye’. And from grammary, by a familiar sound-change, comes glamour—a word whose associations with grammar and even with magic have now been annihilated by the beauty-specialists.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature