We can’t make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. – Army saying
Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
Archives For November 30, 1999
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you’re right. As one grows old, it is easier still.
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat “Do as you would be done by” till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him. And so, as I warned you, we are driven on to something more inward – driven on from social matters to religious matters
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ’s words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism – for that is what the words ‘one flesh’ would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact – just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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