The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach [...]
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C.S. Lewis
Posted in Beauty, Brokenness, Heaven, Humanity, Imagery, Joy, Love, Mystery on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]