Saturday, 24 May 2014

CS Lewis on 'the next world' looming large

But…if that other world is once admitted, how can it, except by sensual or bustling pre-occupations, be kept in the background of our minds? How can the “rest of Christianity” - what is this “rest”? - be disentangled from it? How can we untwine this idea, if once admitted, from our present experience, in which, even before we believed, so many things at least looked like “bright shoots of everlastingness”?

Letters to Malcolm (Chiefly on Prayer), page 120