Saturday, July 7, 2012

food for thought

I'm currently reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller.  It's a great book and I wanted to share a quote I read in it the other day.  The quote is actually from C.S. Lewis and Keller was using it to demonstrate a point.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.  If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.  Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.  But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change.  It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.  The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation.

4 comments:

Cynthia said...

Sadly we all probably know people like that and you come to realize that all you can do is witness to them, pray for them, and eventually you have to learn to let go. And it can be pretty hard sometimes...

Cynthia said...

Sadly we all probably know people like that and you come to realize that all you can do is witness to them, pray for them, and eventually you have to learn to let go. And it can be pretty hard sometimes...

Patrick Kelly said...

Love Tim Keller. Patrick and I did his book The Meaning of Marriage back in December and it was really good. Thanks for sharing.

Heather said...

By the way...that comment was really from Heather. :)