Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainmentโฆis like a qualifying examination. If a fiction canโt provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.
C. S. LewisIf you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
C. S. LewisBy the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
C. S. LewisOf course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.
C. S. LewisA great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.
C. S. LewisPerhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.
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