"People often think of Christian morality
as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward
you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.’ I do not think that is the best
way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice
you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into
something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a
whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly
turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish
creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other
creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and
hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one
kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and
power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and
eternal loneliness. Each of us at this moment is progressing to the one state
or the other."
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 92
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