"The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become... He invented - as an author invents characters in a novel - all the different men that you and I were intended to be. In that sense our real selves are all waiting for us in Him. It is no good trying to 'be myself' without Him. The more I resist Him and try to live on my own, the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires...
It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. "
~ C.S. Lewis ~ Mere Christianity ~
It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. "
~ C.S. Lewis ~ Mere Christianity ~
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