If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.
C. S. LewisHe thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!
C. S. LewisWhat we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
C. S. LewisCertain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C. S. LewisThe more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
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