Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak

If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness.  But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love.  You see [what has happened]?A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance.  [The negative idea of Unselfishness] carries with it [the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others],but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.  I do not think () this is the Christian virtue of Love.  The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self- denial /as an end in itself.  We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses /in order that we may follow Christ; and [nearly every description /of what we shall ultimately find /if we do so] contains an appeal to desire.  If there lurks in most modern minds [the notion //that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing], I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith.  * 도치된 if절 주어 ; [the notion //that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing] Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards /promised in the Gospels,it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.  We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition /when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child //who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum/because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased. From The Weight of Glory Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis