The Inklings

Dedicated to the Inklings (CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, etc.) with two honorary members: Dorothy Sayers and GK Chesterton.

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“For progress by its very nature indicates a direction; and the moment we are in the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree doubtful about the progress.” - G K Chesterton

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“Well, perhaps I’m unfair. Things were easier for us. We were brought up on stories with happy endings and on the Prayer Book.”

- Mrs. Maggs, That Hideous Strength

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“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.” - C. S. Lewis

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“For his education had had the curious effect of making things he read and wrote more real to him than the things he saw. Statistics about agricultural labourers were the substance; any real ditcher, ploughman, or farmer’s boy, was the shadow.” - C S Lewis, That Hideous Strength

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“Odd thing it is—the word ‘experiment’ is unpopular, but not the word ‘experimental.’ You mustn’t experiment on children; but offer the dear little kiddies free education in an experimental school…and it’s all correct!” - C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

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“Those who would like to learn further about Numinor and the True West must (alas!) await the publication of much that still exists only in MSS. of my friend, Professor J. R. R. Tolkien.”

- C. S. Lewis, Preface to That Hideous Strength

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Public education has not produced an educated public.

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“Though men or angels rule them, the worlds are for themselves. The waters you have not floated on, the fruit you have not plucked, the caves into which you have not descended and the fire through which your bodies cannot pass, do not await your coming to put on perfection,” -CSL

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“There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle held over the gas ring.” - C. S. Lewis, Perelandra

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“Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex. Sex is, in fact, merely the adaptation to organic life of a fundamental polarity which divided all created beings.” - C. S. Lewis, Perelandra

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“And though there seemed to be, and indeed were, a thousand roads by which a man could walk through the world, there was not a single one which did not lead sooner or later either to the Beatific or the Miserific Vision." - C S Lewis, Perelandra

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“There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He used material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.” - C S Lewis

[Baptist Press @BaptistPress]

A well-known podcaster recently brought the topic of hell to the forefront by advocating for annihilationism or conditionalism, the belief that the soul of the nonbeliever ceases to exist at the final judgment. A stir of responses followed!

https://t.co/WV4Lkd31Lo

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“People would understand better the popular fury against witches if they remembered that the malice most commonly attributed to them was preventing the birth of children.” - G. K. Chesterton

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“An accusation always implies a standard.” - C.S. Lewis

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

"All the aggressive elements, all the influential elements in society … admired what they called the 'unprecedented progressive experiment taking place in the USSR,' while we were being strangled by the cancerous tentacles of the Gulag Archipelago."

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“Evil always takes advantage of ambiguity.” - G. K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils (1917)

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“The grand problem is that of ‘Unselfishness’. Note, once again, the admirable work of our Philological Arm in substituting the negative unselfishness for the Enemy’s positive Charity.” - C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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10 years

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“I had the pleasure of meeting Billy Graham once. We had dinner together during his visit to Cambridge University in 1955, while he was conducting a mission to students. I thought he was a very modest and a very sensible man, and I liked him very much indeed.” - C S Lewis