The hunger is upon me.

My word, but once I have started reading again, my appetite is insatiable. I have gone through so many books in the last week it's not even funny...unless you have a really bizarre sense of humor anyway. I went to the new library on a whim, and now I know it will be a short time before I return again. I currently have find myself addicted to the Left Behind series. They're easy reads, and at times the large print almost makes it take longer to read, but they have brought forth a craving I had forgotten. I think I just finished book 5 and must return to the library to get the rest of the ones they currently have. Being a believer in Revelation actually being the prophecy it has always said to be, it really strikes home with me, perhaps more than it might with others. But I rather like it. But now, must read more C.S. Lewis.

Nifty

I found this quote while reading this collection of various C.S. Lewis writings and thought it quite keen (I neeed more adjectives). There was another one also, but I rather didn't feel like writing out the other one at this time as it was at least a very large page long.

"Now, if we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will already be in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object. And this, I think, is just what we find."

More words to live by.

"The intellectual life is not the only road to God, nor the safest, but we find it to be a road, and it may be the appointed road for us. Of course it will be so only so long as we keep the impulse pure and disinterested. That is the great difficulty."

"A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
It is for a very different reason that religion cannot occupy the whole of life in the sense of excluding all our natural activities. For, of course, in some sense, it must occupy the whole of life. There is no question of a compromise between the claims of God and the claims of culture, or politics, or anything else. God's claim is infinite and inexorable. You can refuse it: or you can begin to try to grant it. There us no middle way. Yet in spite of this it is clear that Christianity does not exclude any of the ordinary human activities. St. Paul tells people to get on with their jobs. He even assumes that Christians may go to dinner parties, and, what is more, dinner parties given by pagans. Our Lord attends a wedding and provides miraculous wine. Under the aegis of His Church, and in the most Christian ages, learning and the arts flourish. The solution of this paradox is, of course, well known to you. 'Whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.'
All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest: and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. Christianity does not simply replace our natural life and substitute a new one: it is rather a new organization which exploits, to its own supernatural ends, these natural materials. No doubt, in a given situation, it demands the surrender of some, or of all, our merely human puruits: it is better to be saved with one eye, than, having two, be cast into Gehenna."