"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 too easily pleased." ~ C. S. Lewis
"Nothing makes God more supreme and more central than when people are
utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or
prestige or leisure or family or
job or health or sports or toys or friends - is going to
bring satisfaction to their
aching hearts besides God . . .
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him." ~J. Piper
