Holiness

Quotes from C. S. Lewis:

"Dozens of people go to Him to be cured of some particular sin which they are ashamed of or which is obviously spoiling daily life (like bad temper, drunkenness). Well, He will cure it all right: but He will not stop there. That may be what you asked, but if you once call Him in, He will give you the full treatment....

"He didn't come to change us into nice people, but new people. He is the painter and we are the painting. He is the inventor, we are only the invention. He knows what we can be and has given His Son to make our transformation possible. His goal for us is higher than we can imagine for ourselves. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage; but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.....

"Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who needs to lay down his arms....

"For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine. God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and higher, but like turning a horse into a winged creature."