"Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"
"Well, that is the plan. I am perfectly ready to consider it. Of course I should require some assurances. . . I should want a guarantee that you are taking me to a place where I shall find a wider sphere of usefulness--and a scope for the talents that God has given me--and an atmosphere of free inquiry--in short, all that one means for civilization and--er--the spiritual life." "No," said the other. "I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness: you are not needed there at all. No scope for your talents: only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God." The Great Divorce (1945), C.S. Lewis
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