Random Thoughts of Epic Proportion

In the deserts of my heart, may the healing fountains start; in the prison of my days, Lord, teach me how to praise.

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The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain ideal perfection.

The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation.
             --- Leo Tolstoy

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It's not about how far we have come; it's about how far we have yet to go.  When we ask, "Are we there yet?" we aren't asking how far we have come, we're asking how much further we have to go.

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Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
             -- C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

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The modern missionary, with his palm-leaf hat and his umbrella, has become a rather figure of fun.

He is chaffed among men of the world for the ease with which he can be eaten by cannibals and the narrow bigotry which makes him regard the cannibal culture as lower than his own.

Perhaps the best part of the joke is that the men of the world do not see the joke is against themselves.

It is rather ridiculous to ask a man just about to be boiled in a pot and eaten, at a purely religious feast, why he does not regard all religions as equally friendly and fraternal.
       -- From The Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton

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From Demon Screwtape to his apprentice Wormwood.....

The search for a 'suitable' church makes the man a critic where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil....there is hardly any sermon, or any book, which may not be dangerous to us if it is received in this temper.
       -- From The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis

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You don't have a soul; you are a soul. You have a body.
     -- C. S. Lewis