Stuff That Matters In Life

I’ve read this before, but The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis is certainly worth reading again, and again.

I took it off my shelf because my friend mentioned that Max McLean did a sketch of one of the scenes from the book. I started to read the book again, and couldn’t put it down.

The Great Divorce is an allegory about Heaven and Hell. It points out some attitudes and behaviors that belong in Hell that we don’t often think of as “evil”

To the question of “What about those who really want to believe, but their circumstances are against them to ever know God?”

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self – choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. ”

To the question of “How can people in heaven have no sadness when they know their loved ones are suffering in hell?”

“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. I know it has a grand sound to say ye’ll accept no salvation which leaves even one creature in the dark outside. But watch that sophistry or ye’ll make a Dog in a Manger the tyrant of the universe. “