CS Lewis

I love this guy's writings. He is very point-y and makes me think. Here's some of my most favorite quotes by Lewis :

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.

One of my most favorite quotes. It's long, but it is said so well. If you've ever been hurt by love and said to yourself, this'll never happen again. Here's what you are risking. I've done it; it isn't pretty. It is safer not to hurt, but it is also safer to be dead. Neither is fun.

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.

How true ! And, more true the more of God you know.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

I remember pretending to be good, to myself and others. It was quite easy. God opened my eyes to the pretending, then I realized - it isn't easy to good, and man was I ever self-righteous?!

Tangent time - Pretending sucks. There is a pretty cool song by Plumb titled - "Good Behavior", it describes well what happens when I tried to be good my way

I was frozen in a fragile world
Of make believe and empty lies
....
Cause perfect only makes you crazy

there is no way that it could save me

Also very pointy.

Back to Lewis :

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

and

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I like to ponder those statements....