(Re: Lord of the RINGS) It is neither allegorical nor topical....I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

J. R. R. Tolkien, on his dislike of allegory, Lord of the Rings, introduction to the second edition September 2nd, 2010
 

(When it comes to forgiveness) In our own case we accept excuses too easily, in other people's we do not accept them easily enough.

C.S. Lewis Weight of Glory August 1st, 2010
 

True faith delivers from fear by consciously interposing God between it and the object that would make it afraid. The soul that lives in God is surrounded by the divine Presence so that no enemy can approach it without first disposing of God, a palpable impossibility.

A.W. Tozer The Warfare of the Spirit September 1st, 2010
 

Vanishing is impossible. Lasting is impossible. Being in two places at once is impossible. Speaking the entire truth is impossible. Instantly knowing Spanish is impossible. Living in the midst of ten thousand panes of glass is impossible. Being simultaneously masked and unmasked is impossible. Except in art. Art is the art of the possible.

Kenneth Koch The Art of the Possible Credo: June 17th, 2010
 

To see, to hear, to feel or taste -- this sensory intelligence that seems so immediate to us as to be simple and given -- comes about in a formal organization so complicated that it remains obscure to our investigation in all but its crudest aspects. To be alive itself is a form involving organization in time and space, continuity and body, that clearly exceeds our conscious design. ... There is not a phase of our experience that is meaningless, not a phrase of our communication that is meaningless. We do not make things meaningful, but in our making we work towards an awareness of meaning.

Robert Duncan, poet, Tony Kunshner Commencement Speech June 17th, 2010
 

Nothing is so beautiful nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy, as the good; no desert is so dreary, monotonous, and boring as evil. But with fantasy, it is the other way around. Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied, intriguing, attractive, and full of charm.

Simone Weil, whose luminous intelligence and insights are among the most penetrating of our time and bear very clearly on this not just confusion between the concepts of good and evil, but the actual replacement of one by the other,  May 25th, 2010
 

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away -

Philip K. Dick  May 21st, 2010
 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin  May 12th, 2010
 

Christianity has to be disappointing, precisely because it is not a mechanism for accomplishing all our human ambitions and aspirations; it is a mechanism for subjecting all things to the will of God.

Simon Tugwell Celtic Daily Prayer March 5th, 2010
 

But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

Jean Vanier Celtic Daily Prayer March 5th, 2010
 

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

C.S. Lewis Weight of Glory September 1st, 2010
 

Satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

A.W. Tozer The Warfare of the Spirit September 1st, 2010