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Dallen Malna
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“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
“If you can't ride, can you fall?
I suppose anyone can fall, said Shasta
I mean can you fall and get up again without crying and mount again and fall again and yet not be afraid of falling?”
― The Horse and His Boy
I suppose anyone can fall, said Shasta
I mean can you fall and get up again without crying and mount again and fall again and yet not be afraid of falling?”
― The Horse and His Boy
“Joy. The joy of my joy. There through everything. A shocking sense of vitality and beauty present in both happiness and in the midst of pain. The only thing I can think to compare this experience to is the experience of an excellent story—reading a great novel, say, or watching a great movie. The scene before you might be a happy one or a sad one. You might feel uplifted or you might feel heartbroken or you might feel afraid. But whatever you feel, you’re still loving the story. Through prayer, I came to experience both pleasure and sorrow in something like that way. In God, the life of the flesh became the story of the spirit. I loved that story, no matter what. During”
― The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
― The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
“To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
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“When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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