On being Spiritual...

        What's your favorite thing about scriptures?

   I think one of my favorite things is looking back at all of my seminary post-it notes that I glued in the binding of my scriptures, and the scripture mastery memorization songs. Here is one glue-in that I'm happy to share with you!

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is! After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of the wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means- the only complete realist..."

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 124-125