I just came across this very true and downright profound quote, from pp. 86-87 of C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity:
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.“
In other words, with each bad choice, we become more of a hellish creature.
Theologians have warned that with each sin, it gets harder to choose good. And so we sin more, and become increasingly hellish — and miserable.
Every choice we make is important!
~Eowyn