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Ricardo · 10-25-2011, 09:14 PM

The Lord is my Shepherd, I lack nothing." (my translation to English from God's own Reina Valera version.)

DaisyDeadhead · (This post was last modified: 10-26-2011 12:35 PM by DaisyDeadhead.)

(10-13-2011 04:21 PM)Darrell Wrote: nah, I'm no pastor. But I do often get mistaken for one for a few weeks after each hair cut.

Cab Driver: Ain't you a preacher?
Hazel Motes: I AIN'T no preacher!
Cab Driver: Well, you look like one, your hat even looks like a preacher's hat.
Hazel: I don't believe in ANYthing!
Cab Driver: Not in nothing at all?
Hazel: That's right!
Cab Driver: Well, that’s the trouble with you preachers. You’ve all got too good to believe in anything!

Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

eagerlysearching · 08-04-2012, 01:05 PM

From original post from PW: "But honestly, I DO have some earthly desires that I'd like to have met. But I feel bad, because I feel like I SHOULD only want God alone. And there's definitely nothing on earth I'd want INSTEAD of God. But I do still want things too. "

Dear PW: CSL stated this quote in the context of a sermon talking about the promises of scripture of heaven, it wasn't actually directly about Christians on this side of heaven. I am positive he would be terribly disappointed if he heard that this quote made you feel guilty about having multiple desires here on earth. I am particularly sure of this because earlier in the same sermon Lewis states this:

"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."