10 May 2011
C S Lewis: Gratitude versus Adoration
“Gratitude exclaims, very properly, “How good of God to give me this.” Adoration says, “What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and monetary coruscations are like this!” One’s mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun…”
–C S Lewis
(from Letters to Malcon: Chiefly on Prayer)