We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
C. S. LewisChristianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
C. S. LewisThe only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
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