Adam Lang

“But if God brings us into the cross, He will be with us in the cross, and at length, bring us out more refined. We shall lose nothing but dross.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“The duties that God ordinarily requires from us are not proportioned to the strength we have in ourselves but to the help and relief that is laid up for us in Christ.”
― John Owen, Temptation: Winning the Battle Before the War: In Modern English

“The smells in the forest were beyond all that he had ever conceived. To say that they made him feel hungry and thirsty would be misleading; almost, they created a new kind of hunger and thirst, a longing that seemed to flow over from the body into the soul and which was a heaven to feel. Again and again he stood still, clinging to some branch to steady himself, and breathed it all in, as if breathing had become a kind of ritual.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“He used the word “trans-sexual” I remember and began to hunt about for some similar words to apply to eating (after rejecting “trans-gastronomic”),”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra