This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: To go down to that Sea (i think St. John of the Cross called God a sea) and and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), 'A Slip of the Tongue' in 'C.S. Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church' (Great Britain: HarperCollins, 2002), p. 385 ... Link
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