"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. Don’t we in praise somehow enjoy what we praise, however far we are ...
~ C. S. Lewis ~












Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him a...
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