"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."
So says the spirit of George MacDonald (a real Scottish preacher and
fantasy writer), to the narrator in the book, The Great Divorce,
written by C.S. Lewis in 1945.
The book is an allegorical fiction work wherein
people from hell are given the opportunity to take
a bus trip to heaven and, if they wish, stay there.
The book is an amazing combination of imagery,
fantasy, and theology. While it only took me a
few hours to read, I will probably remember it my life long.
In fact, Lewis' deft descriptions of heaven (and he does
emphatically assert in the preface that it is his
pure imagination) are so beautiful and vibrant that
this would be a book I'd like to read when I'm on my death bed.
(hopefully, I'll read it a few more times before then!)
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