Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
C. S. LewisGod is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
C. S. LewisA work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.
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