C.S. Lewis on How to Resurrect our Desires

The road to Paradise is the path of Desire. But we can’t follow that path without the imagination proper.

According to C.S. Lewis, our problem is not that we want too much but that we want too little.

Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine…