A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]

Letter to Alan Griffiths (20 Dec 1946)
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