"He took her by the hand and said to her, 'Talitha Koum,' which means, 'Little girl, arise.'"

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

In Some Disguise, At Every Turn

"If they [miracles] have occurred, they have occurred because they are the very thing this universal story is about.  They are not exceptions (however rarely they occur) nor irrelevancies.  They are precisely those chapters in this great story on which the plot turns.  Death and Resurrection are what the story is about; and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn...  If you have hitherto disbelieved in miracles, it is worth pausing a moment to consider whether this is not chiefly because you thought you had discovered what the story was really about?"

C.S. Lewis, Miracles

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Invisible Whispers

"It was as though the voice which had called to me from the world's end were now speaking at my side.  It was with me in the room, or in my own body, or behind me.  If it had once eluded me by its distance, it now eluded me by proximity - something too near to see, too plain to be understood, on this side of knowledge.  It seemed to have always been with me; if I could ever have turned my head quick enough I should have seized it."

- C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy


Me too...