“I mustn’t encourage you to go on thinking about her. That, after all, is almost the greatest evil nasty people can do us – to become an obsession, to haunt our minds. A brief prayer for them, and then off to other subjects, is the thing, if only one can stick to it.”
C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady, Eerdman’s, 1967, pg 28.
“The allegorical sense of [Mary Magdalene’s] great action dawned on me the other day. The precious alabaster box which one must break over the Holy Feet is one’s heart. Easier said than done. And the contents become perfume only when it is broken. While they are safe inside they are more like sewage. All very alarming.”
C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady, Eerdman’s, 1967, pg 35-36.
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