C.S. Lewis is kind of on a roll here. These are some of his thoughts from The Business of Heaven that I have always appreciated. -- drs
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the center: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those two again, and at each fork you must make a decision. Even on the biological level life is not like a river but like a tree. It does not move towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow further apart as they increase in perfection. Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. -- May 20, p. 133
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists of being put back on the right road. A wrong sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. -- May 21, p.134
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