Emma Miller’s Reviews > Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers > Status Update

“The more darkness and pain we experience in this life, the more resplendence and relief in the next. As a character says in C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, reflecting biblical teaching: ‘That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.’”