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...
The worthier the object the more intense this delight
would be. If it were possible for a created soul fully (I mean up to
the full measure conceivable in a finite being) to "appreciate", that
is to love and delight in, the worthiest object of all, and
simultaneously at every moment to give this delight perfect
expression, then that soul would be in supreme beatitude...
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~
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