4/25/2024 0 Comments Amma syncletica quote meanings![]() ![]() "The further up and the further in you go, the bigger everything gets. It is far bigger inside than it was outside." Of course, replies Mr. "Its inside is bigger than its outside." "Yes," said Queen Lucy, "In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world." A little later, Lucy realizes that the garden they are in "is like the Stable. "It seems, then," said Tirian, smiling too, "that the Stable seen from within and the Stable seen from without are two different places." "Yes," said the High King Peter. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden Thus, he cautions Wormwood never to forget "that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground." Though the demons have used pleasure as a lure to damn many souls, still"He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. We are far too easily pleased." The demon Screwtape knows that it is a lie (no doubt first told by his side) that asceticism means diluted or minimized pleasure, as though sin affords a more robust variety of pleasure than virtue. 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. In his famous sermon "The Weight of Glory," Lewis said, "It would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. The ascetical discipline means training our desires for something more potent than anything we are accustomed to-and better than anything we now like or even imagine.
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