# “Heaven will work backwards” by C.S. Lewis

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- Published: 2009-04-08T21:32:17-05:00
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“That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future
bliss can make up for it’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards
and turn even that agony into a glory.”

–C.S. Lewis, _The Great Divorce_ (New York: HarpersCollins, 1946), 69.

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