THE TRINITY & INTIMACY

'God is simultaneously three and one. We reflect God's image in being in communion with each other while simultaneously being unique. The invitation to intimacy is to a communion of unique persons; to each other and to all. Both the communion and the unique persons are important.'

Marsh Moyle, Rumours of a Better Country, p.64.

INTERNAL CONFLICT

'They cease not fighting, east and west,
On the marches of my breast.

Here the truceless armies yet
Trample, rolled in blood and sweat,
They kill and kill and never die;
And I think each one is I.'

AE Housman in Carl Trueman, Luther on the Christian Life, p.130. 

PERSONALITY

'True personality lies ahead - how far ahead, for most of us, I dare not say. And the key to it does not lie in ourselves. It will not be attained by development from within outwards. It will come to us when we occupy those places in the structure of the eternal cosmos for which we were designed or invented. As a colour first reveals its true quality when placed by an excellent artist in its pre-elected between certain others, as a spice reveals its true flavour when inserted just where and when a good cook wishes among the other ingredients, as the dog becomes really doggy only when he has taken his place in the household of man, so we shall then first be true persons when we have suffered ourselves to be fitted into our places. We are marble waiting to be shaped, metal waiting to be run into a mould. No doubt there are already, even in the unregenerate self, faint hints of which each is designed for, or what sort of pillar he will be.'

CS Lewis, 'Membership' in The CS Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christainity and the Church, p.339.