If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. LewisYou canโt go on โseeing throughโ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To โsee throughโ all things is the same as not to see.
C. S. LewisYou and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.
C. S. LewisChrist died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C. S. LewisEmeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog
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