Saturday, December 17, 2005
CS Lewis speaks
Some of my favourite quotes from "A Pilgrims Regress" by C.S. Lewis. Review to come...
Quoted from Blaise Pascal:
I do not admire the excess of some one virtue unless I am shewn at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue. A man does not prove his greatness by standing at an extremity, but by touching both extremities at once and filling all that lies between them.
From the cynic:
I am old and full of tears, and I see that you also begin to feel the sorrow that is born with us. Abandon hope: do not abandon desire.
On hell:
A black hole is blackness enclosed, limited...evil is fissiparous and could never find any way to arrest its own reproduction. If it could it would be no longer evil: for Form and Limit belong to the good. The walls of the black hole are the tourniquet on the wound through which the lost soul else would bleed to a death she never reached. It is the Landlord's last service to those who will let him do nothing better for them.Each quote problematic, each one worth time and meditation.
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Craig (mars-hill) Saturday, December 17, 2005
