Lewis: the badness of sadness

Tuesday, August 4, 2020
    Feast of John Vianney, Curè d’Ars, 1859
Meditation:
    Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
    —Ecclesiastes 11:10 (ESV)
Quotation:
    My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Problem of Pain, New York: Macmillan, 1944, p. 55 (see the book)
    See also Eccl. 11:10; Ps. 126:5-6; Isa. 35:10; 2 Cor. 7:10-11
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, guard me from temptations to melancholy. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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