“I
think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely
expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how
beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It
is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to
tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road,
upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to
keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a
tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it
with. . . . The Scotch catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to
glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these
are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to
glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”
C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
(H/T Catholic Bibles blog)
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