One of the most stirring quotes I have yet read from one of the most stirring men I have yet read. Full context
here.
I think one may be quite rid of the old haunting suspicion--it raises
its head in every temptation--that there is something else than
God--some other country into which He forbids us to trespass--some kind
of delight which He 'doesn't appreciate' or just chooses to forbid,
but which would be real delight if only we were allowed to get it.
The
thing just isn't there.
Whatever we desire is either what God is trying to give us as quickly
as He can, or else a false picture of what He is trying to give us--a
false picture which would not attract us for a moment if we saw the real
thing.
--C. S. Lewis, as recorded in
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949 (ed. Walter Hooper; Cambridge University Press, 2004), 124
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