Re-Discovering C.S. Lewis

I read on Dorinda's blog that it's been 7 months since I posted. Tonight I choose to post a couple of quotes from C.S. Lewis. After reading several paragraphs from his books, I have a renewed respect for the late author. The depth, beauty and ready whit of his writings is like a breath of fresh air in the smog of mediocre scribblings.

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
(The Four Loves)

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."