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Book cover for The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
In most children but in relatively few adults, at least in our time, we may see this willingness to be delighted to the point of self-abandonment. This free and full gift of oneself to a story is what produces the state of enchantment. But ...more
Chrysti Hedding
I’ve often thought about this too. Where does our sense of wonder go as we grow up?
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Alan Jacobs
“Lewis was an exceptionally skillful exposer of ideological forces and their titanic influence over us, but he rarely gets credit for this from contemporary intellectuals because it is their most treasured beliefs that, more often than not, he is exposing. So instead of praising him for the acuity of his insights, they call him “reactionary” or “Victorian”
Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Alan Jacobs
“Lewis passionately believed that education is not about providing information so much as cultivating “habits of the heart”—producing “men with chests,” as he puts it in his book The Abolition of Man, that is, people who not only think as they should but respond as they should, instinctively and emotionally, to the challenges and blessings the world offers to them.”
Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Brené Brown
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“Homemaking is not about mastering cleaning lists and chores but about loving and serving people, making homes in which they—and we—can flourish.”
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“If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.”
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