Joseph Ryan

“We have only to reflect upon the fact that no human being can be a substitute for another, a fact of which love makes us sharply aware with its impelling desire for a unique relationship with a unique person, to realise what this means and to discover that we have here something not met with in the rest of nature; that we are dealing with a uniqueness which goes far beyond mere individuation of bodies or mere differences of appearance and behaviour.”
― Aelred Watkin, Resurrection Is Now: how death is not only an end but a beginning, and how to live life as a preparation for death and resurrection.

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
― C.S. Lewis

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis