The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
C. S. LewisHe thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!
C. S. LewisMere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
C. S. LewisWouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
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