Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
C. S. LewisThe game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.
C. S. LewisKnock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
C. S. LewisWhat do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
C. S. LewisIf only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
C. S. LewisThe very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.
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