No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.
C. S. LewisAs the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
C. S. LewisThe most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
C. S. LewisI have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C. S. LewisOur struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already
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