Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
C. S. LewisI am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
C. S. LewisAs long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
C. S. LewisNow is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C. S. LewisBut all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
C. S. LewisI believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.
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