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C. S. Lewis · 1961
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Grief strips faith bare: Lewis discovers that loss does not destroy belief so much as it burns away every comfortable, untested version of it.
faith-and-doubt
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
AGOL-RC-019You will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters but for every penny you have.
AGOL-RC-026grief
He will always be a one-legged man. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it.
AGOL-RC-033There is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss… the atmosphere, the taste, of the whole thing is deadly.
AGOL-RC-025mortality
'She will live forever in my memory!' Live? That is exactly what she won't do… What's left? A corpse, a memory, and a ghost. Three more ways of spelling the word dead.
AGOL-RC-018When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer'—a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze.
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