It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
C. S. LewisWhat we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
C. S. LewisBut in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isnโt yet, or used to be Human once and isnโt now, or ought to be Human and isnโt, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
C. S. LewisGod, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
C. S. LewisTemperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.
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