C.S. Lewis
Receive a Christian singles newsletter in my email. Sometimes I loathe to read the articles inside, because they tell me what I already know. Sometimes they rub salt on the wound that is not healing. Sometimes, some sharing, IMO, are just corny, giving me no help at all. You know, the comments and ideas get repeated over and over again, but it does not give me a better grasp of my situation.
The extracted article from a book today was somehow gripping. On the plight of singleness ("Why are you not married yet?"), and being honest about the suffering the single person has to bear, as well as the family. It's not happy and dandy all the time as a single. There are genuine moments of sadness. Something NOBODY can do ANYTHING about it. Well at least, this article is honest.
Then further down the article there was an section which they called "Single Tip". Kinda corny title for a website for singles.. Anyway... there's this lady who quoted C.S. Lewis about being open to relationships. It was a nice quote, and so I embarked on a research on quotations by Mr C.S. Lewis. Found very interesting quotes by him on various issues. This website is the best:
http://www.quotedb.com/authors/cs-lewis/1
They have the quotes classified in different categories.
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
This was the original quote that was mentioned in the Single Tip. And this has been one of the principles I lived by. Have heard someone mentioned it before, but dunno whose quote was that. Finally, I can put that down.
There's another quote under Love:
"Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal."
Of course there are many other quotes, many I believe, will speak to you, when you go there at the right time.
Some of the other sites:
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/c.s._lewis/
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Author=C.+S.+Lewis&file=other
The extracted article from a book today was somehow gripping. On the plight of singleness ("Why are you not married yet?"), and being honest about the suffering the single person has to bear, as well as the family. It's not happy and dandy all the time as a single. There are genuine moments of sadness. Something NOBODY can do ANYTHING about it. Well at least, this article is honest.
Then further down the article there was an section which they called "Single Tip". Kinda corny title for a website for singles.. Anyway... there's this lady who quoted C.S. Lewis about being open to relationships. It was a nice quote, and so I embarked on a research on quotations by Mr C.S. Lewis. Found very interesting quotes by him on various issues. This website is the best:
http://www.quotedb.com/authors/cs-lewis/1
They have the quotes classified in different categories.
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
This was the original quote that was mentioned in the Single Tip. And this has been one of the principles I lived by. Have heard someone mentioned it before, but dunno whose quote was that. Finally, I can put that down.
There's another quote under Love:
"Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal."
Of course there are many other quotes, many I believe, will speak to you, when you go there at the right time.
Some of the other sites:
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/c.s._lewis/
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Author=C.+S.+Lewis&file=other
2 Comments:
CS Lewis is my all-time favourite writer. :) Every one of his books is absolutely brilliant.
:) I love the honesty of the man about the realities of Christianity :)
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