“Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and
good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God
reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the
beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them.
They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship,
increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument
for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is He who has spread
the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to
hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without
our Host.”—British novelist and religious author C.S. Lewis (1898-1963),
The Four Loves (1960)
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