Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.

Here are a few that especially spoke to me this week:

From a friend’s Facebook:

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. — Winston Churchill

Sad, but all too true.

From another friend’s Facebook:

This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness; not health but healing; not being but becoming; not rest but exercise…. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not finished, but it is going on…This is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.” — Martin Luther on sanctification

Though we are made righteous in Christ at the moment of salvation, the outworking of that into our everyday lives takes a lifetime. It can be discouraging that we’re so far from what we should be — for me, it seems like the farther I go along the farther away I am — but it is encouraging that we’re still in a process of growth.

I found these quotes about reading through one link from Semicolon‘s blog leading to another and finally ending up here:

“[The fairy tale] stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from dulling or emptying the actual world, gives it a new dimension of depth. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: The reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.” —C. S. Lewis, in Of Other Worlds

“Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” —C. S. Lewis, in Of Other Worlds

“If good novels are comments on life, good stories of this sort (which are very much rarer) are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.” —C. S. Lewis, in Of Other Worlds

Great thoughts on how even fiction can enrich our imaginations and enhance our understanding.

If you’ve read anything that particularly spoke to you that you’d like to share, please either list it in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below. I do ask that only family-friendly quotes be included. I hope you’ll visit some of the other participants as well and glean some great thoughts to ponder.