Nathaniel Miller said:
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I love this book. On one hand, it is about longing and desire - “Narnia and the north!” And on the other, it is very much a story of providence, a story Aslan carries well. A remarkable adventure!
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Another way to say it is that God reveals more of himself through his word when it is read in community than he does when it is read in isolation.
“Oh, of course. I’m wrong. Everything I say or do is wrong, according to you.’ ‘But of course!’ said the Spirit, shining with love and mirth so that my eyes were dazzled. ‘That’s what we all find when we reach this country. We’ve all been wrong! That’s the great joke. There’s no need to go on pretending one was right! After that we begin living.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“It’s a weapon on the other side. It leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light [112] and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. 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.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Do you mean then that Hell—all that infinite empty town—is down in some little crack like this?’ ‘Yes. All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light. No, no, no. Come to us. We will not go to you. Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? Did you not know they were stronger than their opposites?”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Every natural love will rise again and live forever [89] in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
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