Corey

“Miracles do not happen:"—'t is plain sense,
If you italicize the present tense;
But in those days, as rare old Chaucer tells,
All Britain was fulfilled of miracles.”
― Charlton Miner Lewis, Gawayne and the Green knight;

“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Canto) by C. S. Lewis

“The value of our activity depends almost entirely on the humility to accept ourselves as we are. The reason why we do things so badly is that we are not content to do what we can.We insist on doing what is not asked of us, because we want to taste the success that belongs to somebody else. We never discover what it is like to make a success of our own work, because we do not want to undertake any work that is merely proportionate to our powers.Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a "means of livelihood" while he waits to discover his "true vocation." The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness....The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica