A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
C. S. LewisIf conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
C. S. LewisGood philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
C. S. LewisWe hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.
C. S. LewisThere have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
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