Saturday, 31 October 2009

• Currently Mere Christianity LP By C. S. Lewis see related

  
  

  I'm reading C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" for the first time.... L O V E  I T . So much I could write on and share about....so I would just encourage you to get a copy and read it yourself. Here though, is a paragraph that particularly stuck out for me....great to chew/reflect over: 

  "We may, indeed, be sure that perfect <insert Christian virtue> will not be attained by any merely human efforts. You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important <insert Christian virtue> may be, this process trains up in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection."

   

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