If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. LewisA great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
C. S. LewisJewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
C. S. LewisWe have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
C. S. LewisFallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
C. S. LewisOnly those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.
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