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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
Surprised by Joy, 1955
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Lewis wrote Surprised by Joy as his spiritual autobiography — the story of his conversion from atheism to Christianity. This line captures something he learned through resistance: the things that pressed hardest on him were the things that freed him most.

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