Dallen Malna

“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”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“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.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“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”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ