more lewis

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

-C.S. Lewis- The Great Divorce

I've got Lewis on the Brain

"Christ died for men preciesly because men are not worth dying for, to make them worth it."

"Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self."

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we shouldnever have hfound out that it has no meaning..."

" He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or party or class, is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically beliongs to God: himself..."

The road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."