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Quote Time: C. S. Lewis

2011-09-27T06:00:00.000-04:00

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come." — C.S. Lewis
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Quote Time: C. S. Lewis

2011-09-24T06:00:00.000-04:00

"The more often [a man] feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel."
- C.S. Lewis
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Quote Time: C. S. Lewis

2011-09-23T06:45:00.000-04:00

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." — C.S. Lewis

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Quote Time: C. S. Lewis

2011-09-21T11:35:00.001-04:00

This is one of my top C. S. Lewis Quotes.

'The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.'
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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Our Town Time: Yorktown Beach, Yorktown, Virginia

2011-05-27T08:51:00.001-04:00

There are alot of nice places in this world, but not many you regularly make time for in your life - This is such a place for me. :) For more about Riverwalk Landing, Yorktown Beach, Yorktown, Virginia - go here.

Crochet Time: Bernat Giant Summer Afghan

2011-03-29T04:13:00.001-04:00

I just finished this colorful afghan in March. It is called Giant Summer Afghan and the crochet pattern can be found in the Bernat Around the Seasons Afghans Pattern Book. I love the colors and will be using this pattern again for many occasions.

The middle photo is from Bernat and top and bottom photos are mine.

Our Town Time: Claire Murray Hooked Rugs and Nancy Thomas Prints, Yorktown, Virginia

2011-01-10T09:24:00.001-05:00

I am totally loving this beautiful print made into a hooked rug design by two talented artists. Two different mediums blending perfectly. Nancy Thomas is a wonderful American Folk Artist with a studio right down the road in Historic Yorktown, Virginia. Claire Murray has a store in Yorktown also with Nancy Thomas artwork in rug form. This, to me, is a lovely combination. To see the whole "Kindred Spirit Collection" of prints made into hooked rugs go here.

Our Town Time: Wythe House Back Yard, Colonial Williamsburg, Va

2010-12-11T11:33:00.000-05:00

These two photos were taken by my husband for our main blog LivinginWilliamsburgVirginia.blogspot.com. They are photos of the back yard area of the Wythe House in Colonial Williamsburg.

We were just reviewing photos, organizing posts and looking through the work that we both did in the last year on the blog and I do believe that these two photos are some of my favorite. For many more photos of our beautiful Williamsburg, Virginia, just pop on over to our other blog Living In Williamsburg. There is a new photo of Williamsburg posted everyday!

Quote Time: More C. S. Lewis Quotes

2010-11-14T07:19:00.003-05:00

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

- C. S. Lewis

You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.”
- C. S. Lewis

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
- C. S. Lewis

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
- C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
- C. S. Lewis

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

- C. S. Lewis

"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."

- C. S. Lewis

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."

- C. S. Lewis

"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."

- C. S. Lewis

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."

- C. S. Lewis

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

- C. S. Lewis

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."
- C. S. Lewis

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."- C. S. Lewis"

All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

Family Time: Thinking about Nanticoke, Maryland

2010-07-15T10:12:00.005-04:00

The picture above is of a small boat harbor in Nanticoke, Maryland that

my mom, Alice Rockwell painted.

We have been enjoying looking up, and researching family relatives on Ancestry.com. Looking and constantly seeing the words Nanicoke, Tyaskin and Bivalve, Maryland beside my family names is making me very homesick for one of our favorite vacation places. We would spent alot of time with family at the Roaring Point Campground in Nanticoke. It used to be one of the best kept secrets in the camping world - not sure how it is anymore because it has been many, many years since we have been there. The campground has a beautiful view of the Chesapeake Bay. I think it might be time for another visit to the Nanticoke area. : )

Below are just some random pics of one of the last times we were there. My brother and our kids are in the photos. Our kids are adults now.

Narnianfan Time: Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Official Trailer

2010-06-17T07:31:00.002-04:00

Well, it's finally here the Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Movie Trailer. It can also be seen in the previews of the new Toy Story 3 movie. I have added the other Narnia movie trailers below it for your enjoyment.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe (9 minute super trailer)

Family Time: Our American Girl in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

2010-04-26T13:30:00.000-04:00

This is one of our many, many family trips to Colonial Williamsburg through the years until we finally gave up and moved here. Danielle is wearing her tri-corner hat and carrying her beloved American Girl Doll, Felicity of Williamsburg at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor's Center. We have many good memories of these trips with her.

Vacation Time: Deal Island, Maryland

2010-04-25T07:58:00.001-04:00

Deal Island is one of many, many places we have visited on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It's views of the Chesapeake Bay are breath taking. It is extremely small town island living. This is a place we would love to go back to for more pictures.

Our Town Time: Busch Gardens Italy, Williamsburg, Virginia

2010-04-23T10:19:00.001-04:00

Our daughter at Busch Gardens Williamsburg trying on masks.

Crochet Time: Rambling Rows Afghan Baby Blanket

2010-02-03T21:33:00.001-05:00

Sharing pictures of our daughter's wonderful knitting work. She made awesome baby blankets for the 3 new babies born in the family in the last year; Caroline, Alex and Carter, her baby cousins. She used the Rambling Rows Afghan pattern from Cottage Creations purchased at our favorite yarn store The Knitting Sisters here in Williamsburg, Virginia. You can also find many variations of the pattern on Ravelry. We think she did a great job.

Our Town Time: Snow in Williamsburg, Virginia - and it's still coming down!

2010-01-30T14:24:00.005-05:00

It's a rare event in Williamsburg, Virginia for it to snow and our dogs seemed perplexed and excited - sorta. One of our doggies, Sydney, the Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix loves the snow - and our other little doggie, Rachel, the Jack Russell, would rather it be sunny and 85 degrees. The snow started last night and is expecting to continue through the day (1/30/10) till the wee hours of Sunday morn. Predicted amounts of snow here are in the range of 4 to 12 inches. We'll see.

Quote Time: C. S. Lewis Quotes to Ponder #2

2010-01-28T12:56:00.002-05:00

"Nothing is yet in its true form."
— C.S. Lewis

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
— C.S. Lewis

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
— C.S. Lewis

"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."
— C.S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold)

"[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
— C.S. Lewis

"[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
— C.S. Lewis

"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

"Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"
— C.S. Lewis (The Last Battle)

"Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."
— C.S. Lewis

"The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus."
— C.S. Lewis

"Numbers don't win a battle."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."
— C.S. Lewis

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
— C.S. Lewis

"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger; well there is such a thing as food; a duckling wants to swim; well there is such a thing as water, etc. If I find myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."
— C.S. Lewis

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." -"
— C.S. Lewis

"...here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]"
— C.S. Lewis

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
— C.S. Lewis (Miracles)

"I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us."
— C.S. Lewis

"Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
— C.S. Lewis

"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither."
— C.S. Lewis

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."
— C.S. Lewis (The Timeless Writings of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, & God in the Dock (Inspirational Christian Library) Hardcover Book)

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscious, but shouts in our pain. It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C.S. Lewis

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"'This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.'"
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."
— C.S. Lewis (The Great Divorce)

"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God s love for us does not."
— C.S. Lewis

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

"This moment contains all moments."
— C.S. Lewis

"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
— C.S. Lewis

"Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him."
— C.S. Lewis (Perelandra)

"Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God?
Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door."
— C.S. Lewis

"Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next."
— C.S. Lewis

"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"
— C.S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
— C.S. Lewis

"Joy is the serious business of heaven."
— C.S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "
— C.S. Lewis

Narnianfan Time: Chronicles of Narnia Movie Trailers

2010-01-27T16:20:00.003-05:00

Purely for my enjoyment- have gathered together the main Chronicles of Narnia Movie Trailers. I am waiting patiently for the next Narnia movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Feeling like it's time to re-read and re-watch the beloved C. S. Lewis stories/movies.

I gathered the below info from Narnia Web and The Lions Call sites -they have many links to various other Narnian movie trailers. These are great sites to spend a little C. S. Lewis time.

The Chronicles of Narnia -The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe:

Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian:

Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader:

Crochet Time: Homespun Yarn Afghan

2010-01-20T07:54:00.005-05:00

Love the rich colors from Homespun Yarn that was used to crochet my daughter's blanket. I'm sure these colors will be showing up in many future projects.

a blanket for danielle
Originally uploaded by narnianfan

Our Town Time: Jamestown- Scotland Ferry Ride to the Pumpkin Patch

2009-10-19T12:31:00.007-04:00

Our daughter and her friends came for their college break from Liberty University - so we took a day and hopped the Jamestown- Scotland Ferry across the James River to Surry, Va. to go pumpkin picking at College Run Farms to their pumpkin patch - it's the same place we go to pick strawberries in the summer.
It was beautiful weather and a great day with the girls.

Our Town Time: Busch Gardens -Wild Days!

2009-09-14T11:58:00.002-04:00

Here is a slide of some of the pictures that we shot yesterday. We took somepictures of the various beautiful birds we saw at Busch Gardens Wild Days and the rest are just random shots of the park until he ran out of battery. We had a wonderful time together.

Crochet Time: Crochet Afghan

2009-08-20T09:59:00.006-04:00

Well I'm done- and I really like how the colors turned out and how soft the Homespun brand yarn is. I will definitely be using the pattern and yarn again.

Crochet Time: Camo Blanket

2009-08-11T12:31:00.012-04:00

This is the very first project I crocheted. It was a blanket that my daughter wanted me to crochet for her - she picked the color and it turned out to be almost too big of a project - I felt myself wanting to quit because it seemed so overwhelming at times- But patience payed off - it is done!
A free pattern for the squares used in this blanket can be found at this wonderful blog called do you mind if i knit.

Vacation Time: Cape Charles, Virginia

2009-08-08T11:13:00.007-04:00

We discovered Cape Charles, Virginia recently. It is a quaint beach town just across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. It has a sort of Norman Rockwellish feel with victorian houses and shops.

We went to the beach near the fishing pier. We saw some guys "bottle fishing." They wrapped fishing line around a bottle and used it instead of a rod.

It was a very nice surprise discovery and will definitely be a place we visit again.

Vacation Time: Ocean City, Maryland

2009-07-27T11:31:00.029-04:00

We had a few days off together and decided to do an overnight at the OC Maryland beach. It is a place we spent a lot of time at through the years - it holds a boat load of good memories. The boardwalk always bustles with people and the air is filled with wonderful summer smells. Going to Ocean City Maryland always seems to be time well spent.

Knitting Time: Rambling Rows Baby Afghan

2009-07-07T11:49:00.014-04:00

Our daughter began knitting in June of this year and this is her first
amazing project. Way to go Baby!

Yarn, pattern ( Rambling Rows Afghan ), and gracious help was from our nearby very cool knitting

shop here in Williamsburg - The Knitting Sisters

Our Town Time: College Run Farms, Surry, Va - Strawberry Picking With my Baby

2009-05-16T09:07:00.036-04:00

We had the best day strawberry picking at College Run Farms in Surry, Va. Half of the adventure was packing a picnic lunch, driving down the scenic Colonial Parkway to get to the drive-on ferry, taking the 15-20 minute ferry ride across the beautiful James river, then a lovely country drive to the College Run Farm where we picked strawberries. Oh, did I mention it was sunny, 72 degrees, a light breeze blew, and I had wonderful company, my lovely daughter. Perfect day.

Quote Time: Famous Quotes to Ponder

2009-01-13T21:18:00.011-05:00

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." — Albert Einstein

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — Albert Einstein

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." — Mark Twain

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" — Benjamin Franklin

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon." — Jimmy Carter

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God." — Madeleine L'Engle

"In my dreams, I never have an age." — Madeleine L'Engle

"Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it." — Madeleine L'Engle

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." — Madeleine L'Engle
"Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist." — Madeleine L'Engle

"I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what." — Madeleine L'Engle

"In reading we must become creators." — Madeleine L'Engle

"We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually." — Madeleine L'Engle

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." — Abraham Lincoln

"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone." — Martin Luther

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth." — Martin Luther

Quote Time: Our Favorite C.S. Lewis Quotes to Ponder

2009-01-13T20:28:00.009-05:00

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." — C.S. Lewis

"We read to know that we are not alone." — C.S. Lewis

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." — C.S. Lewis

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." — C.S. Lewis

"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)

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell." — C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. " — C.S. Lewis
"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

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." — C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." — C.S. Lewis

"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." — C.S. Lewis

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. " — C.S. Lewis
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." — C.S. Lewis

"Nothing is yet in its true form." — C.S. Lewis

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once." — C.S. Lewis

"It is a good rule . . . to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books." — C.S. Lewis

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important." — C.S. Lewis

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!" — C.S. Lewis (The Horse and His Boy)

"The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity." — C.S. Lewis

"Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker." — C.S. Lewis

"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." — C.S. Lewis

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different...." — C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)

"One of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you anymore you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself." — C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"The more often [a man] feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel." — C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

"'This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.'" — C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." — C.S. Lewis

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same." — C.S. Lewis

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step." — C.S. Lewis

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done." — C.S. Lewis

""All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." -" — C.S. Lewis

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives." — C.S. Lewis

"Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door." — C.S. Lewis

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage." — C.S. Lewis

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come." — C.S. Lewis

Blog Time: Be patient - new to blog world

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This is a place that made to organize some of our favorite websites and blogs - also a place to share with our family and friends some of our happenings. We will see how it evolves.