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Quotable Friday: Love or Unselfishness

09 Friday Jan 2015

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C. S. Lewis, love, selfishness

Today’s quote is actually a large passage by C.S. Lewis from The Business of Heaven. I’d read this before, and when I came across it this morning I knew I wanted to share it with you.

If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive… The negative idea of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of Love… If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak.

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