Chrysti Hedding

“Homemaking is not about mastering cleaning lists and chores but about loving and serving people, making homes in which they—and we—can flourish.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“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 why do we lose the desire—or if not the desire, the ability—to give ourselves in this way?”
― Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

“It turns out that it is a lot easier to keep believing what everyone around us believes if we ignore or misrepresent the beliefs of our ancestors.”
― Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

“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