Indeed, we are not great, but simply vessels. This excerpt is at the end of C.S. Lewis’s “Perelandra,” after the victory won by Ransom, the hero, over the Demonic figure, God being his helper. The Archangel speaks to Ransom, who is overwhelmed by the magnitude of what has been accomplished:
“Be comforted, it is no doing of yours. You are not great…be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad….”
Indeed, we are not great, but simply vessels. This excerpt is at the end of C.S. Lewis’s “Perelandra,” after the victory won by Ransom, the hero, over the Demonic figure, God being his helper. The Archangel speaks to Ransom, who is overwhelmed by the magnitude of what has been accomplished:
“Be comforted, it is no doing of yours. You are not great…be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad….”