Sweet Sunday!

Sunday seems like the perfect time to share this quote from C. S. Lewis. I've read it several times, but I recently re-discovered it on my newest favorite blog:

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End of my testimonial, here's the quote:

Remember, this repentance, this willing submission to humiliation and a kind of death, is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if he chose: it is simply a description of what going back to Him is like. If you ask God to take you back without it, you are really asking Him to let you go back without going back. It cannot happen.

Very well, then, we must go through with it. But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes, but what do we mean when we talk of God helping us? We mean God putting into us a bit of Himself, so to speak.

He lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them.

We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, Book II, Chapter 4