truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 10:12 am

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 10:12 am

In answer to your question as to what constitutes a happy life, whether splendor, fame and wealth, or a quiet, peaceful, family life, I will say that I agree with the latter, but will add the following: A life lived in humility and with an irreproachable conscience brings peace, tranquility, and true happiness. But wealth, honor, glory and exalted position often serve as the cause of a multitude of sins, and such happiness is not one on which to rely.

Counsels of Venerable St. Makary (Ivanov) of Optina

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:19 am

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:19 am

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:20 am

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

C. S. Lewis

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:20 am

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

C. S. Lewis

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:21 am

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

C. S. Lewis