thin red line

I just watched Thin Red Line for our film night & discussion tonight. I'm not quite sure what I think of it yet and am thinking a bit about war and peace and how knowing Jesus affects the way I should rightly think about all this. I'll have to blog after I've sorted though my thoughts a bit more. But there are some interesting quotes below from the film.

"There's great evil. Where's it come from? How did it steal into the world?

What seed, what root did it grow from? Whose doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might have known?

Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow and the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you too? Have you passed through this night?"

"War to any noble man turns them into dogs, poisons the soul."

"How do we get to those shores, those blue hills? Love, where does it come from? Who put this flame in us? NO war can put it out and conquer it. I was a prisoner, you set me free."

"How did we loose the good that was given us? Let it slip away, scatter carelessly? What's keeping us from reaching out and touching the glory?"

"One man sees a dying bird and... that death has the final word. Another man sees the glory and something shining through it."

"Everything a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead, or in their lie... There's only one thing a man can do - find something that's his, and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack; a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours."

"Darkness and light, strife and love, are they the workings of one mind, the features of the same face? "

All this has made me think of some C.S. Lewis quotes about man, life, war, peace,... I'll have to look them up and post them later.