Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C.S. LewisTags: life pain free-will nature suffering
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
C.S. LewisTags: consciousness
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
C.S. LewisShe did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
C.S. LewisI see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...
C.S. LewisHis face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
C.S. LewisThat's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.
Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do."
"Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LewisTo love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
C.S. LewisTags: love
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