[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.
C. S. LewisIf one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
C. S. LewisI have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!
C. S. LewisThe world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.
C. S. LewisTo be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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