95 Quotes by Philip Zaleski

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God’s grace.

Tolkien regretted “the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm,” and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, “There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

It’s not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield.

After reading binge prompted by convalescence, “As if to balance the ledger, letters poured out at an equally prodigious pace.

He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord’s battles in the Academy and the world at large.

Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during “the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing,” and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.