To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be …

C. S. Lewis
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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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