Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
C. S. LewisIn Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
C. S. LewisThere is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
C. S. LewisEvery natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
C. S. LewisWe have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
C. S. LewisOnly those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation meansโthe only complete realist.
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