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hummingwolf) wrote2002-11-02 10:41 am
hummingwolf) wrote2002-11-02 10:41 am
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For a different friend
who asked something about the previous post:
"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, 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 meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
--C.S. Lewis in "The Weight of Glory"
(Of course I'm sure Lewis didn't mean to denigrate the joys of sex and drink here, though he didn't seem too fond of ambition...)
"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, 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 meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
--C.S. Lewis in "The Weight of Glory"
(Of course I'm sure Lewis didn't mean to denigrate the joys of sex and drink here, though he didn't seem too fond of ambition...)
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Remember what i said in your car about how conflicts are caused by all participants? Even the ones that look like victims?
Why are women so easy to shame? Why did women lose their faith in their rightful connection to the Divine?
'nuff said.