Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad.
C.S. LewisTirian, with his head against Jewel's flank, slept as soundly as if he were in his royal bed at Cair Paravel, till the sound of a gong beating awoke him and he sat up and saw that there was firelight on the far side of the stable and knew that the hour had come. "Kiss me, Jewel," he said. "For certainly this is our last night on earth. And if ever I offended against you in any matter great or small, forgive me now."
"Dear King," said the Unicorn, "I could almost wish you had, so that I might forgive it. Farewell. We have known great joys together. If Aslan gave me my choice I would choose no other life than the life I have had and no other death than the one we go to.
I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.
C.S. LewisTag: fantasy science-fiction sci-fi perelandra eldil oyarsa
Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen.
C.S. LewisTo walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.
C.S. LewisTag: god-s-will perelandra
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.
C.S. LewisI had at least loved Psyche truly. There, if nowhere else, I had the right of it and the gods were in the wrong.
C.S. LewisTag: love
The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
C.S. LewisMy aim was to build up more and more that strength, hard and joyless, which had come to me when I heard the god's sentence; by learning, fighting, and labouring, to drive all the woman out of me.
C.S. LewisI saw in a flash that if I shrank from this there would at once be less Queen and more Orual in me.
C.S. LewisTag: queen
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