H.W. Charles Quotes
The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian, " Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.
Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.
Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.
I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...
If you can’t be happy, then be something else. Be useful, that would be good. Decorative, if you like. Selfish, if you must. But don’t whine about it.
Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them?
The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.
When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.
Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.
I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy.
J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.
A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.
Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.
The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.
More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.
Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.
Now call your old lady and tell her to come out here. Go ahead and don't try no funny stuff.
The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions" Discard 2
The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions." Discard 2
The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2
A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.
If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".
One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.
A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.
Dreams may seem far, but the steps we take are close. Focus on these steps and watch your dreams magically appear.
Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.
If you’re not there for yourself, how can you be there for others?
The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you.
Faith is not blind when you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.
Faith is not blind if you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.
When faith replaces fear, the gates open for you to receive enough money, optimal health, and genuine relationships.
You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop.