Andy

“Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”
― aesop

“It is rumored that the plague has broken out here, but the report is empty and false; by the favor of Christ everything is safe and quiet.”
― Martin Luther, Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel