This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.
C. S. LewisAnd out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human historyโmoney, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slaveryโthe long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C. S. LewisIf they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
C. S. LewisYou ask โfor whatโ God wants you. Isnโt the primary answer that He wants you. Weโre not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.
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