“The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of ‘Heaven’ ridiculous by saying they do not want ‘to spend eternity playing harps’. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery (harps, crowns, gold, etc.) is, of course, a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible. Musical instruments are mentioned because for many people (not all) music is the thing known in the present life which most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity. Crowns are mentioned to suggest the fact that those who are united with God in eternity share His splendour and power and joy. Gold is mentioned to suggest the timelessness of Heaven (gold does not rust) and the preciousness of it. People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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