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“Democratic reformers facing repression, prison, or exile can know: America sees you for who you are: the future leaders of your free country.”

-- George W. Bush, Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 2005

For years, a small number of Oxford dons and fellows, as well as some of their friends, met in a local pub on Tuesdays to drink beer, hold discussions on such matters as mythology, morality, and literature, and read aloud the things they had been writing. Perhaps more important than these meetings were the Thursday night gatherings in the rooms of CS Lewis at Magdalen college. This group, which included such intellectual giants as Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and Charles Williams, was known as "The Inklings."

"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy."
--C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
--C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."
--C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity