Daily Devotional

On effort

C. S. Lewis

Many things—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly—are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

From Studies in Medieval Literature
Compiled in Words to Live By Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.