“When
I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do
it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and wouldn’t go to
the churches and Gospel Halls; I disliked very much their hymns which I
considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I
saw the merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different
outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began
peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were,
nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in
elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t
fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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