'Gentle Jesus', my elbow! The most striking thing about Our Lord is the union of great ferocity with extreme tenderness. (Remember Pascal? 'I do not admire the extreme of one virtue unless you show me at the same time the extreme of the opposite virtue. One shows one's greatness not by being at an extremity but by being simultaneously at two extremities and filling all the space between')
Add to this that He is also a supreme ironist, dialectician, and
(occasionally) humorist. So go on! You are on the right track now:
getting to the real Man behind all the plaster dolls that have been
substituted for Him. This is the appearance in Human form of the God who
made the Tiger and the Lamb, the avalanche and the rose. He'll frighten
and puzzle you: but the real Christ can be loved and admired as the
doll can't.
--Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, 3:1011
This is the real Jesus not the religious Jesus, not the fake Jesus or the weak Jesus. I will worship the real Jesus.
--Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, 3:1011
This is the real Jesus not the religious Jesus, not the fake Jesus or the weak Jesus. I will worship the real Jesus.
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