What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.
C. S. LewisNo justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that โa gentleman does not cheatโ, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.
C. S. LewisJoy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
C. S. LewisThe point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
C. S. LewisGod whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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