Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.
C. S. LewisI believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisWe regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
C. S. LewisAnd now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.
C. S. LewisShe did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
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