Luther and Lewis

How could one be more strongly and comfortably moved to willing endurance of hunger and poverty than by these fine words of the Mother of God—that God will fill all the hungry with good things? Whoever is not moved by these words and such glory and praise of poverty is certainly without faith and truth, a genuine heathen.—Martin Luther, Magnificat AE 21:349.

At first I am overwhelmed, and all my little happinesses look like broken toys. Then, slowly and reluctantly, bit by bit, I try to bring myself into the frame of mine that I should be in at all times. I remind myself that all these toys were never intended to possess my heart, that my true good is in another world and my only real treasure is Christ... And that is why tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 244, 245.