Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a def…

C. S. Lewis
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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