The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Weitere Zitate von C.S. Lewis
Zum Autor"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read."
"Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about."
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."