You rack your brain to solve the mystery of the Savior, but you would do better to examine the puzzle of your own heart. You should be wondering why you are so impenetrable: why your intentions, which are always so noble, are followed by so few good deeds; why, despite your pious impulses, your life [...]
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C.S. Lewis
Posted in Desire, God, Humanity, Joy, Mankind, Worship on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I again tasted Joy. But far more often I frightened it away by my greedy impatience to snare it, and, even when it came, instantly destroyed it by introspection, and at all times vulgarized it by my false assumptions about its nature…To ‘get it again’ became my constant endeavor…And there lies the deadly error. Only [...]
Thomas Chalmers
Posted in Desire, God, Heart, Love, Mankind, Renewal, Sanctification, Sin on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The love of God and the love of the world, are two affections, not merely in a state of rivalship, but in a state of enmity—and that so irreconcilable, that they cannot dwell together in the same bosom. We have already affirmed how impossible it were for the heart, by any innate elasticity of its [...]
Thomas Chalmers
Posted in Desire, Heart, Humanity, Love, Mankind, Renewal, Sanctification, Sin on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is seldom that any of our tastes are made to disappear by a mere process of natural extinction. At least, it is very seldom, that this is done through the instrumentality of reasoning. It may be done by excessive pampering—but it is almost never done by the mere force of mental determination. But what [...]
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