Since I leave for Oxford on Monday, I felt that reading a few inspirational quotes from C.S. Lewis to start a Saturday was fitting. I’ll also by at Magdalen College mentioned in this first quote. Lots of pictures to come, I promise!
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” – Surprised by Joy
“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. . .” –Mere Christianity
Oh, you’re real, you’re real! Oh, Aslan!” cried Lucy and both girls flung themselves upon him and covered him with kisses.
“But what does it all mean?” asked Susan when they were somewhat calmer.
“It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.”
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, p. 132
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