Our desires aren’t too strong, but too weak.

Our desires aren’t too strong, but too weak.

 

Deer in Oxford
The Grove or Deer Park at Magdalen College, Oxford, where C. S. Lewis spent much of his teaching career.
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“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.”
C. S. Lewis

 

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