Shadowlands

"The most intense joy lies not in the having but in the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach."

"Fight me, I can take it. Even I cannot fight on both sides at once you know. At least I can but I’m liable to win."

"He comes; he sleeps; he goes. So the plot thickens."

"Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he makes us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see we are like blocks of stone out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel which hurt us so much are what make us perfect."

"Isn’t God supposed to be good? Isn’t God supposed to love us? And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? ’Cause I’m not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up. I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he makes us the gift of suffering."

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me."

"I love you, Joy. I love you so much. You made me so happy. I didn't know I could be so happy."

"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore, only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice. As a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal."

"Are you trying to be offensive, or merely stupid?"

"Anthony Hopkins - C.S. "Jack" Lewis"

"Debra Winger - Joy Gresham"

"Edward Hardwicke - Warren "Warnie" Lewis"

"Joseph Mazzello - Douglas Gresham"