I found Lewis' thoughts on Christian hope to be very balanced in both urging us to fix our eyes on the world to come, and yet not letting that cause us to neglect our callings to do Kingdom work in the fallen world we currently inhabit. These quotes are great supports for why anticipating the future (as Robert Webber emphasizes in Ancient Future Worship) is such essential content for our worship songs, prayers, etc.
"This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal is not...a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is."
"It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so in effective in this (changing the world for the better)."
"I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."
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