When I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving & excusing. ~ C.S. Lewis
[quote from The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis. Lewis delivered this sermon at Oxford University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, on June 8, 1941. It was originally published in 1942 by G. Bles in London and by Macmilan Co., New York.]