The most profound paragraph in all of C. S. Lewis, at least to me https://t.co/UaGl0evFuu
The most profound paragraph in all of C. S. Lewis, at least to me https://t.co/UaGl0evFuu
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger to... See more
Brain Food: Richer Than Yesterday
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.
C. S. Lewis • Mere Christianity
every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: ei
... See morea crucial step in dealing with evil, because “good” and “goodness” are actually opposites.
Barry Michels • Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential
Lewis will not let his readers forget that good thought is dynamic thought and it must not become stagnant.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
In his essay, “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis writes: “It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is mean
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