C.S. Lewis on love
From The Great Divorce
"You cannot love a fellow-creature fully till you love God. Sometimes this conversion can be done while the [love for the other person] is being gratified. [But sometimes it cannot, and...]...when that first love was thwarted, then there was a chance that in the loneliness, in the silence, something else might begin to grow."
"...love, as mortals understand the word, isn't enough. Every natural love will rise again and live forever...but none will rise again until it has been buried."
"You cannot love a fellow-creature fully till you love God. Sometimes this conversion can be done while the [love for the other person] is being gratified. [But sometimes it cannot, and...]...when that first love was thwarted, then there was a chance that in the loneliness, in the silence, something else might begin to grow."
"...love, as mortals understand the word, isn't enough. Every natural love will rise again and live forever...but none will rise again until it has been buried."
posted by Marci at 1:22 PM
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Even the greatest sin or trial or weakness will be a blessing in our lives -- it will a part of the means by which we are brought to God if we are humbled and turn to God because of them. But the greatest experience or strength or blessing, if chosen over God and his will, will become an awful gulf separating us from him. Anything, no matter what it is, that we are unwilling to let go of in order to come to God, will become a chain binding us to hell.
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