“mere christianity.” book 3. chapter 9. “hope.”
christian view of hope by c.s. lewis:
“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. 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. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthlyblessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for thesomething else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others do the same.”
after reading the first 50 pages or so of “mere christianity” i thought of hi-lighting all the stuff or quotes as they are correctly called, that really stood out to me.
well i decided against it for one reason.
90 percent of the book would be hi-lighted.
so instead on occasion i put a little quote up here.
now there are tons and tons more i could put and it seems like after every chapter i have to stop and pretty mcuh reread it again or at leat sit and think for a while.
(which is probably why i have yet to finish it. but thats ok.)