By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
C. S. LewisThose who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
C. S. LewisAnd out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human historyโmoney, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slaveryโthe long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C. S. LewisYou must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
C. S. Lewis