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Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. that thing is freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.
-C. S. Lewis
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Time Is The Very Lens Through Which

C. S. Lewis
Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. that thing is freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.
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