Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.
C. S. LewisWell, sir, if things are real, theyโre there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
C. S. LewisA man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. LewisOur temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
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