Andrew Barbin

“Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Nothing ever does half the good—perhaps nothing ever does half the evil—which is expected of it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Excuse me. Where do you imagine you’ve been?’ ‘Ah, I see. You mean that the grey town with its continual hope of morning (we must all live by hope, must we not?), with its field for indefinite progress, is, in a sense, Heaven, if only we have eyes to see it? That is a beautiful idea.’ ‘I didn’t mean that at all. Is it possible you don’t know where you’ve been?’ ‘Now that you mention it, I don’t think we ever do give it a name. What do you call it?’ ‘We call it Hell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce: An extraordinary voyage of self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment

“In friendship, we think we have chosen our peers [...] but for a Christian there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.”

Friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves