Melissa Petersen

“We are always completely, and therefore equally, known to God. That is our destiny whether we like it or not. But though this knowledge never varies, the quality of our being known can….Ordinarily, to be known by God is to be, for this purpose, in the category of things. We are, like earthworms, cabbages, and nebulae, objects of Divine knowledge, But when we (a) become aware of this fact--the present fact, not the generalization--and (b) assent with all our will to be known, then we treat ourselves, in relation to God, not as things but as persons. We have unveiled. Not that any veil could have baffled his sight. The change is in us. The passive changes to the active. Instead of merely being known, we show, we tell, we offer ourselves to view.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman”
― Edward Butler-Lytton

“One of the purposes for which God instituted prayer may have been to bear witness that the course of events is not governed like a state but created like a work of art to which every being makes a conscious contribution, and in which every being is both a means and an end.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“What I did know was that for a creature of power, the choice to do good was its own kind of magic.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Mostly True Story of Jack