"[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think t...
Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
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Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.
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"He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them he knew that he had a...
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
"What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of whi...
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls o...
"Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...
"Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
"Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gen...
"destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which t...
"The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whicheve...
"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...
"But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference...
"The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, ...