The Problem of Pain

by C.S. Lewis

All that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His good way, to utter satisfaction.

Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it—made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

union exists only between distincts;

What is outside the system of self-giving is not earth, nor nature, nor ‘ordinary life’, but simply and solely hell.

All pains and pleasures we have known on earth are early initiations in the movements of that dance: but the dance itself is strictly incomparable with the sufferings of this present time.