Quotable quotes
".. When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all"
"The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims upon them, then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure."
"Christianity.. does admit that perfect obedience to the moral law.. is not in fact possible to men. This would raise a real difficulty about our responsibility if perfect obedience had any practical relation at all to the lives of most of us. Some degree of obedience which you and I have failed to attain in the last twenty-four hours is certainly possible."
"The divine 'goodness' differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different: it differs from ours not as white from black but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel."
"We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven-a senile benevolence who, as they say, 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves' and whose plan for the universe whose simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, 'a good time was had by all'."
"Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved.. Of all powers he forgives most, but condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all."
Quite cool I think.. Such inspirations are part of what attracts me to Lewis's book so much.. All quotes are taken from The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
"The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims upon them, then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure."
"Christianity.. does admit that perfect obedience to the moral law.. is not in fact possible to men. This would raise a real difficulty about our responsibility if perfect obedience had any practical relation at all to the lives of most of us. Some degree of obedience which you and I have failed to attain in the last twenty-four hours is certainly possible."
"The divine 'goodness' differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different: it differs from ours not as white from black but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel."
"We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven-a senile benevolence who, as they say, 'liked to see young people enjoying themselves' and whose plan for the universe whose simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, 'a good time was had by all'."
"Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved.. Of all powers he forgives most, but condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all."
Quite cool I think.. Such inspirations are part of what attracts me to Lewis's book so much.. All quotes are taken from The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
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