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Lewis’ reminder for separation of church and state?

“I call this a Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up ‘our own’ when it is no longer worth keeping.”

“Beware lest you are making use of the idea of corporate guilt to distract your attention from those humdrum, old fashioned guilts of your own which have nothing to do with ‘the system’ and which can be dealt with without waiting for the millennium.”

“We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us”
I feel like most pastors don’t preach this way anymore. You usually hear the opposite, which strikes me as super codependent.

“meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ‘God can’.”

“Christianity is not the conclusion of a philosophical debate on the origins of the universe: it is a catastrophic historical event following on the long spiritual preparation of humanity”