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- From: Braden Glen <d246@UNI05.LARC.NASA.GOV>
- Subject: From C S Lewis- About Christian Life
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- 'God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find
- out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He
- makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always
- knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize
- the fact was to knock it down.'
- _A Grief Observed_ ch 3
-
- 'One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1
- different things that MIGHT happen.'
- _Unpublish Letter_ (3 August 1956)
-
- 'I am , indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear
- barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual
- life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things-
- ignorance, alcohol, passion, presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable
- that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear
- no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that
- we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.'
- _The World's Last Night_ ch 7
-
- 'Though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often
- the other way round-we get afraid BECAUSE we struggle.'
- _Unpublish Letter_ (17 June 1963)
-
-
- In His Love
- Glen
-
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- 'By and by when I look at His face, beautiful face, thorn scarred face,
- By and by when I look at His face, I'll wish I've given him more...'
- -Hymn,
-