C.S. Lewis Quotes

And If (as I Said Before) What We Are Matters Even More Than What We Do - If, Indeed, What We Do Matters Chiefly As Evidence Of What We Are - Then It Follows That The Change Which I Most Need To Undergo Is A Change That My Own Direct, Voluntary Efforts Cannot Bring About. And This Applies To My Good Actions Too. How Many Of Them Were Done For The Right Motive? How Many For Fear Of Public Opinion, Or A Desire To Show Off? How Many From A Sort Of Obstinacy Or Sense Of Superiority Which, In Different Circumstances, Might Equally Have Led To Some Very Bad Act? But I Cannot, By Direct Moral Effort, Give Myself New Motives. After The First Few Steps In The Christian Life We Realise That Everything Which Really Needs To Be Done In Our Souls Can Be Done Only By God.

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