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“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable; think of it as a place of training and correction, and it’s not so bad.  Imagine a set of people all living in the same building.  Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison.  Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. . . . The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists; the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

C. S. Lewis, “Answers to Questions on Christianity,” in God In The Dock (Grand Rapids, 1970), page 52.

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