"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
~ C. S. Lewis ~












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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not bee...
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"Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
"I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the good will and honesty of my be...
"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, y...
"You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.
"I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slaver...
"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...
"We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.
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