Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
C. S. LewisProsperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
C. S. LewisThose who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
C. S. LewisMy idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
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