Rebekah Erman

“It is a spiritual lust; and like the lust of the body it has the fatal power of making everything else in the world seem uninteresting while it lasts. It is probably this passion, more even than the desire for power, which makes magicians.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who "keep themselves to themselves," and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have never truly known.”
― Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism

“The home can be a place where in carelessness parents provoke and intimidate children to undesirable reactions. It would be incorrect to assume that all negative reactions are the fault of the parent. But sometimes they are. And they often happen because of the parent’s need to feel powerful before his or her child. These things ought not to be.”
― Bill Johnson, Raising Giant-Killers: Releasing Your Child's Divine Destiny through Intentional Parenting

“I passed into the cool evening of Fligher Thought, where there was nothing to be obeyed, and nothing to be believed except what was either comforting or exciting. I do not mean that Miss C. did this; better say that the Enemy did this in me, taking occasion from things she innocently said. One”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life