Fear of the Lord Moving from Head to Heart

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

— C.S. Lewis

Why We Need the Fear of the Lord (Job 1:1, Psalm 147:10-11)

“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

— C.S. Lewis