“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God.”
- St. Augustine
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Patton to His Son
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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is…”
“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, The Weight of Glory
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“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable…”
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
– C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“Christ went more readily to the cross, than we do to the throne of grace.”
“Christ went more readily to the cross, than we do to the throne of grace.”
– Thomas Watson
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