mere christianity – Justin B. Fung

The first battle of the day

by Justinchurch, personal 30 October, 201430 October, 2014No Comments

It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other Voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter …

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Priorities

by Justinother people's words 31 January, 201231 January, 2012One Comment

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (Macmillan, 1960), 190: Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth …