When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. LewisWhen the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
C. S. LewisBut Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
C. S. LewisTo play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
C. S. LewisA perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; heโd always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.
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