Quote #17
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
More from C. S. Lewis
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have e…
- Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
- I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to c…
- Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
- If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
- Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
- There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.