And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her prideโฆ Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. LewisWhenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.
C. S. LewisWhy love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
C. S. LewisThe point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
C. S. LewisThe only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
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