Thursday, November 29, 2007

Loving this quote from CS Lewis

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be 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 alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.

The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly save from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

- C.S Lewis
The Four Loves

2 comments:

ferenge mama said...

wow - what a great quote!

so nice to see you posting, Pamplemousse!!

Gwen Buchanan said...

Makes you stop and think and feel! This quote touches the very soul. How delicate the heart ......