We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
C. S. LewisThe world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.
C. S. LewisChild, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
C. S. LewisAmbition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.
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