Leslie

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

“Relatively few contemporary Christians are prepared to suffer for the faith, because the therapeutic society that has formed them denies the purpose of suffering in the first place, and the idea of bearing pain for the sake of truth seems ridiculous.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin