29 May 2024
People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which
God says, “If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do
the other thing.” I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would
much rather say that 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: either into a
creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with
itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with
its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is
heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other
means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of
us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.
C.S. Lewis
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