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Augustine of Hippo
“Virgil certainly is held to be a great poet; in fact he is regarded as the best and the most renowned of all poets, and for that reason he is read by children at an early age-they take great draughts of his poetry into their unformed minds, so that they may not easily forget him, for, as Horace remarks, "New vessels will for long retain the taste of what is first poured into them.”
Augustine of Hippo, City of God

George Eliot
“The best piety is to enjoy - when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight- in art or in anything else.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

C.S. Lewis
“The Life-Force, being only a blind force, with no morals and no mind, will never interfere with you like that troublesome God we learned about when we were children. The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Karen Swallow Prior
“But the cultivation and expression of virtue (and vice) and the formation of conscience is not merely an individual act but also a communal one. In addition to shaping individual experience and character, great literature has a role in forming the communal conscience and public virtue. We can understand a great deal about culture—its strengths, its weakness, its blind spots, and its struggles—when we examine the literature it not only produces but reveres.”
Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

Karen Swallow Prior
“What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith.”
Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

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