By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.
C. S. LewisIt seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
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. Lewis