The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.
C. S. Lewis'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
C. S. LewisIf the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
C. S. LewisEvery poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
C. S. Lewis