Wednesday, July 27

Imagining Heaven

In The Great Divorce, the main character ghost is given the size of Hell:

"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all.

Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

If all Hell's miseries together entered the consciousness of yon wee yellow bird on the bough there, they would be swallowed up without a trace, as if one drop of ink had been dropped into that Great Ocean to which your terrestrial Pacific itself is only a molecule."
~C. S. Lewis

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What excellent comfort!