Sunday, September 12, 2010

quote of the week, september 12-18, 2010

"We know not what we shall be"; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as a candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun. (Lewis 2001:111)


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References:
Lewis, C. S. (2001). Transposition. In The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses, New York, NY: Harper One, 91-115. (Original work published 1949)

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