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“To gain all we must risk all”
― Paul Von Lettow-vorbeck, My Reminiscences of East Africa: The Campaign for German East Africa in World War I

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Any saying is to be taken in the sense it would naturally have borne in the time and place of utterance.”
― Clive Staples C S Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory