"I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to
my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn't go to the churches. . . But as I
went on I saw the great merit of it. I came up against different people of
quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit
just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate
music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint
in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren't
fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit." (C. S. Lewis)
Quoted by Ed Stetzer
here.
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