When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. LewisSafe?โ said Mr. Beaver; โdonโt you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? โCourse he isnโt safe. But heโs good. Heโs the King, I tell you.
C. S. LewisWe want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
C. S. LewisOnly those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation meansโthe only complete realist.
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