A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
C. S. LewisRead
Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.
Interpretation
Life has its challenges and unpleasant aspects.
C. S. Lewis uses a humorous metaphor to illustrate that life is not always easy or enjoyable; it is filled with difficulties and unexpected trials. The imagery of 'fricasseed frogs and eel pie' highlights the idea that one must accept that life includes less-than-pleasant experiences alongside the good ones.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.
We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.
Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
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