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Job 2:10 and C.S. Lewis – from a letter to Arthur Greeves, December 20, 1943
A couple of quotes struck me this morning. The first is from the book of Job. It is his response just after all his wealth, servants and family are stripped from him. The second is from a letter Lewis wrote and really doesn’t need much context. With out further ado:
Shall we accept the good from God, and not trouble?
Job 2:10
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s “real life” is a phantom of one’s own imagination.
C.S. Lewis – from a letter to Arthur Greeves, December 20, 1943
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 66)
Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony, that there was scare any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positive to thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something comfort ourselves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 66)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
It is not enough to be happy, we must be satisfied with ourselves.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 712)
The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 712)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 632)
Civil war? What does this mean? Is there any foreign war? Is not every war between men, war between brothers? War is modified only by it’s aim. There is neither foreign war, nor civil war; there is only unjust war and just war.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 632)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 541)
the peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 541)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 332-333)
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. . . Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 332-333)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 113)
The best men are often compelled to delegate their authority.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 113)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 25)
Have no fear no fear of robbers or murderers. Such dangers are without, and are but petty. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. What matters it what threatens our heads or our purses? Ler us think only of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 25)
C.S. Lewis – The Silver Chair (page 661)
Even in this world, of course, it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
C.S. Lewis – The Silver Chair (page 661)
