Found another C.S. Lewis time-related quote somewhat like the one in the 4-25-02 entry:

We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. “How he’s grown!” we exclaim, “How time flies!” as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal. [Reflections on the Psalms, chap. 12, para. 17, p. 138]

And here’s another quote by Lewis, also on eternity, that I rather like:

I’m pretty sure eternal life doesn’t mean this width-less line of moments endlessly prolonged (as if by prolongation it could “catch up with” that which it so obviously could never hold) but getting off that line onto its plane or even the solid. [A Severe Mercy, Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (5 June 1955), p. 205]

That kind of thinking boggles my mind but in a most delightful way. I often used to think of eternity as just being time going on and on and on, which of course seems dreadfully boring after a few thousand years. But I suspect there’s much more to it than that — something I can’t even imagine, just as the two-dimensional circle in Abbott’s Flatland can’t comprehend the third dimension. Eternity can’t very well be that boring, since God doesn’t seem to be bored with it. I think our human perspective is just too limited right now to deal with concepts like eternity and the infinite, so it’s useless to try to figure it out. We can only talk about it in a roundabout way using metaphors like the above two quotes.