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I really struggle with reading C.S. Lewis sometimes. I really love the way he thinks and the way he sees the world, but his actual writing itself is not a style that I particularly connect with. I often have to read summaries or other analyses of his work because I get lost his in allegories and metaphors and have a hard time extracting the spiritual/philosophical thoughts from in. Case in point, I didn't find this book particularly compelling to read in terms of narrative or characters, but it had some really, really great and thought-provoking quotes that I saved for later contemplation. I'm just going to post those quotes here so you all know what I took away from this book.  "There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself... as if the good Lord has nothing better to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ." "Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already." "The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs shall be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven." There are some other good ones in the book, but those were my three favorites which I think are perhaps just as applicable to the world today as when C.S. Lewis first wrote this book in 1945. | ||
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