The Problem of Pain

by C.S. Lewis

His Omni- potence means power to do all that is intrinsically possi- ble, not to do the intrinsically impossible.

You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

God saw the crucifixion in the act of creating the first nebula.

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surren- der self-will as long as all seems to be well with it.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

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If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be like an orchestra in which all the instruments played the same note.