“You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.” ~ The Great Divorce The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the danger and perturbations of love is Hell.” ~ The Four Loves The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change.

Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. “The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.” ~ The Four Loves Christ, who said to the disciples “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you” can truly say to every group of Christian friends “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.” ~ The Four Loves “A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” ~ The Great Divorce He’s the King, I tell you.” ~ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion”…”Safe?” said Mr Beaver …”Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe.

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. May his classic writing encourage your faith, or at least make you feel like an erudite savant when you quote him. (She also had a feisty personality, or maybe it was the red hair, that enabled her to make quick witted comments.) Like Anne, I appreciate a creative word choice or metaphor as they enable me to better understand complex mysteries. She had an extensive vocabulary and a high respect for the beauty of the English language. Growing up, I wanted to talk like Anne of Avonlea.

Four loves by cs lewis