“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.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.”
― Four Loves
― Four Loves
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