Tag: Human Pain

  • Human Pain, Continued

    C. S. Lewis All things which are as they ought to be are conformed unto this second law eternal; and even those things which to this eternal law are not conformable are notwithstanding in some sort ordered by the first eternal law.HOOKER, Laws of Eccles. Pol., I, iii, I In this chapter, I advance six…

  • Human Pain (Part 2)

    C. S. Lewis We therefore agree with Aristotle that what is intrinsically right may well be agreeable, and that the better a man is the more he will like it; but we agree with Kant so far as to say that there is one right act — that of self-surrender — which cannot be willed…

  • Human Pain (Part 1)

    C. S. Lewis Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a horror of it.Theologia Germanica,…