Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or a railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
- C. S. Lewis
What we decide matters. What we do matters in the arena of right and wrong. No matter how small, there is an impression left on our souls, left on who we are at our cores, when we choose between good and evil. Our souls are left to either get better or worse. Each choice we make in the direction of evil makes evil easier the next time around. Good works the same way. One will grow in us as the other dies. They are inversely proportionate. The better or worse we choose to be, the better or worse we are becoming.
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