Tired of Being Just an Egg?
"...a new sort of life will be spreading through our system: because now we are letting Him work at the right part of us. It is the differences between paint, which is merely laid on the surface, and a dye or stain which soaks right through.
He never talked vague, idealistic gas. When He said, 'Be perfect,' He meant it.
He meant that we must go in for the full treatment.
It is hard; but the sort of compromise we are all hankering for is much harder -- in fact, it is impossible.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly when remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg.
We must be hatched or go bad."
C S Lewis, from Mere Christianity
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