Found by Mr. Jones... 'It's what he would have wanted'

'Every human life is religiously designed. To want to deny this confuses everything and cancels the concepts of individuality, [human] race, and immortality.'

- Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.”

- Kierkegaard (Journals, 1838)

“And this is one of the most decisive definitions for all Christianity – the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”

- Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death

“All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status: always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best having are wantings.”

- C.S. Lewis, Letters

“Alas! who would be a king! Will the time never come when these wars and disturbances shall cease and we shall have entire peace in this land!”

- King Arthur, Howard Pyle’s The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

'In Scripture, the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying, 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.''

- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a

“An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom that did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”

- C.S. Lewis, Christianity and Literature

“Socrates was great in that he distinguished between what he understood and what he did not understand.”

- Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety

If you really want to know what an alpha male looks like, this is it:

Running and leaping through the forest in search of water lilies for your wife, tending to the trees, and sending barrow-wights into the outer darkness.

Anyone who tells you that kids are not worth the sacrifices you must make is disqualified from offering life advice.

“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

- Screwtape

“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all–and more amusing.”

- Screwtape