Sunday
Apr152007
Quote of the Week
Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 06:41AM The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's own or real life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day.
C. S. Lewis
Reader Comments (8)
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!
So true. This is an encouraging pick for your sidebar, Kim. XO
I love this.
Great quote! Where does it come from?
How often I've been guilty of longing for some hard thing to pass rather than embracing it as something that comes to me from the hand of God for my good and his glory.
This one is going in my quote file. Thanks, Kim.
I don't know where it comes from; I collected it many years ago and it's one I come back to over and over.
Oh! Kim! That's no good. The quote is familiar to me too. I'm sure I've read it before but like you, I didn't record where it came from. You're so much more responsible than me when it comes to quoting habits that I was sure you'd know. How could we both be so negligent? ;) I suppose it's a job for Google.
Usually, if there is no source to one of my quotes, it is because wherever I read it, there was no source given. There are many quotes out there that do not give the source, only the author.
If I write down the quote from a book myself, I always write that down. Since my experience with the DML-J quote, I have begun to write down page numbers, too!
It crossed my mind at one point to see if I could google all the unsourced quotes I have in my stash, but the task is daunting and if the need arises, I can always google them:
They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves, (London: Collins, 1979), 499.