CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But
in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be
broken; it will become
unbreakable,
impenetrable,
irredeemable.
- The Four Loves
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly known as C. S. Lewis, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. Born in Belfast,
Ireland, he held academic positions at both Oxford University, 1925–54, and Cambridge
University, 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The
Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his
non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The
Problem of Pain.
Lovely, the way CS Lewis expands so eloquently an idea.
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