’Jolly beggars’

“It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors who brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. Surely we must have a little- however little- native luminosity? Surely we can’t be quite creatures. Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our Need, a joy in total dependence. We become ’jolly beggars.’” C.S. Lewis