which God says, “if you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if
you don’t I’ll do the other thing.” I do not think that is the best
way of looking at it.
I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you
are turning the central part of you into something a little different
than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all the
innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this
central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish
creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God and
with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a
state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures,
and with itself.
To be one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace
and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness,
horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of
us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.
MERE CHRISTIANITY by C.S. Lewis copyright © C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1942, 1943, 1944 1952.
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