1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
"Instruction, prayer ministry and spiritual disciplines are all important, but unless we have actual models of Christian life to copy, we are unlikely to be able to understand how these factors work out in the details of life."
Quote from miracles by C.S Lewis:
To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride.
There is in our present pilgrim condition plenty of room for abstinence and renunciation and mortifying our natural desires.
These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may someday be free of horse altogether but that someday we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world-shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the King's stables.
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