There are two quotations which I would like to share with you on this Holy Saturday 2014. Both are from C. S. Lewis, the Christian author who died on the same day in November of 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The first:
. . . [W]orst of all is this: we cannot help seeing that only the degree of virtue which we now regard as impracticable can possibly save our race even on this planet.
The second:
[To have faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him it must follow that you are trying to obey him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven in already inside you.
The result of putting these thoughts together is the realization that we will not escape the trap in which we have placed ourselves, the trap of using our free will to try to please ourselves above all things, until we see that love is all there really is in the universe and we must freely allow that love to flow through us by the exercise of our own free will because we see that action as our own highest good.
Have a blessed Easter.
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