The Habit of Faith

This is an extra -- something I found this evening. I just ripped it right off from Methodist Corner, but I will thank Allen McGraw for posting such a great quote:

From Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis:

Now Faith…is the art of holding on to things your reason ‘has once accepted, in
spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason
takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in
which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had
moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your
moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why Faith is such
a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods where they get off, you can
never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature
dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the
state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of Faith.