God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.
C. S. LewisAn 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.
C. S. LewisA great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I donโt think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while weโre doing it, I think weโre meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birdsโ song and the frosty sunrise.
C. S. LewisTo what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
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