“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
- C.S. Lewis
By far, one of my all time favorite quotes, and to it I owe much thanks because in remembering that joy of salvation that we were reminded of yesterday, this quote was one that broke me down in a lot of ways. It reminded me of the mere fact that "to love at all, is to be vulnerable." Otherwise, the other option that C.S.Lewis so cleverly states, is we bind ourselves and our hearts up to the point where we will not be broken, however, that creates in us a dark, impenetrable, & irredeemable soul.
Before knowing Him - I had no idea what love was and bound myself up exactly as C.S.Lewis stated. But now, now we have the joy of salvation, the joy of love, the joy of Christ in our hearts and our lives.
Joy of Salvation
"You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."
- Isaiah 55:12 -
- Betsy
amazing quote
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