To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that th...
My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrativ...
One way or another the thing had to die. Perpetual springtime is not allowed. You were not cutting the wood of life according to the grain.
What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.
Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. ...
