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The idea that Jesus came to teach a new, simple, clear ethic of being nice to people, without any “dogmatic” claims or “supernatural” elements, is so deeply embedded in Western culture that one sometimes despairs, like a gardener faced with ...more
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C.S. Lewis
“was there a single doctrine practiced at Belbury which hadn’t been preached by some lecturer at Edgestow?”
C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

Gregory Koukl
“It is critical to get certain facts right. Put simply—reason assesses, faith trusts.5 That is the relationship of reason to faith. Reason helps us know what is actually true, leading to accurate belief. Faith is our step of trust to rely on what we have good reason to believe is so. In”
Gregory Koukl, The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between

C.S. Lewis
“The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the—”
C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

Roger Lancelyn Green
“The big knight fell heavily to the ground, and lay there, as nearly dead as possible. His servants came running from the castle and took him in. He got better in the end, but nobody cared much about that.”
Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

C.S. Lewis
“But a Christian must not be either a Totalitarian or an Individualist.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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