"When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Intellectual Quotes #Secret Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.”
“I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.”
“If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.”
“What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.”
“It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.”

Source : Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.”
“At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.”

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