"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, and there is no blemish in you." --Song of Solomon 4:7

"Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death. Its ardor is as inflexible as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, nor will the rivers overflow it; if a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised." --SS 8:6-7

"When in our whole lives did we honestly face, in solitude, the one question on which all turned: whether after all the supernatural might not in fact occur? When did we put up one moment's real resistance to the loss of our faith?" --C.S. Lewis

"We were afraid of crude salvationism, afraid of a breach with the spirit of the age, afraid of ridicule, afraid (above all) of real spiritual fears and hopes." --C.S. Lewis

"Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?" -C.S. Lewis