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“I have been so young till this moment that all my life now seems to have been a kind of sleep. I have thought that I was being carried, and behold, I was walking.” Ransom asked what she meant. “What you have made me see,” answered the
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“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are in for and close the book with the least waste of time.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Stories are not just entertainment, not to me. A story records and transmits the experience of being human. It teaches us what it’s like to be who we are. Nothing but art can do this. There is no science that can capture the inner life. No words can describe it directly. We can only speak of it in metaphors. We can only say: it’s like this—this story, this picture, this song.”
― The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
― The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
“And as regards contraceptives, there is a paradoxical, negative sense in which all possible future generations are the patients or subjects of a power wielded by those already alive. By contraception simply, they are denied existence; by contraception used as a means of selective breeding, they are, without their concurring voice, made to be what one generation, for its own reasons, may choose to prefer.”
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“When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“it sometimes seems to me the entire postmodern assault on the concept of truth has been staged to avoid just this conclusion: some cultures are simply more productive than others”
― The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
― The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
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