C. S. Lewis once wrote that stories have a unique knack of getting under our skin and hitting us at a deeper level than our thoughts. They can strengthen old certainties and open doors we thought were locked. Stories have the power to
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“If you want people to know the truth, tell them.
If you want people to love the truth, tell them a story.”
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If you want people to love the truth, tell them a story.”
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“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
“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
“C. S. Lewis once wrote that stories have a unique knack of getting under our skin and hitting us at a deeper level than our thoughts. They can strengthen old certainties and open doors we thought were locked. Stories have the power to express the inexpressible and provide answers to questions that can be answered in no other way. Stories—whether told in word, picture, song or verse—have the ability to satisfy a deep longing in each of us.”
― The Hound of Heaven: A Modern Adaptation
― The Hound of Heaven: A Modern Adaptation
“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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