Benjamin Wear

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”
― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“La Culture et l’État — qu’on ne s’y trompe pas — sont antagonistes : « État civilisé », ce n’est là qu’une idée moderne. L’un vit de l’autre, l’un prospère au détriment de l’autre. Toutes les grandes époques de culture sont des époques de décadence politique : ce qui a été grand au sens de la culture a été non-politique, et même anti-politique…”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols