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In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
~C.S. Lewis

"Well, perhaps I'm unfair. Things were easier for us. We were brought up on stories with happy endings and on the Prayer Book."
~Mother Dimble observes in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis.

the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
~1 Corinthians 1:27

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
~C.S. Lewis

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated.
~C.S. Lewis

The sun never hides his light for fear of inconveniencing the owls. If you are afraid of other people�s opinion, you should not have become a Christian.
~St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney

The bread you do not use is the bread of the hungry. The garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of the person who is naked. The shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot. The money you keep locked away is the money of the poor. The acts of charity you do not perform are the injustices you commit.
~St. Basil the Great (4th century)

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
~Elizabeth I

A man who ceases to believe in God does not believe in nothing; he believes in anything.
~G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

If anything goes, everything's gone.
~Tom Marr

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~Winston Churchill

"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense�
~Winston Churchill

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, "You are mad, you are not like us."
~St. Anthony of Egypt

As far as Orthodoxy goes, yes it does provide some space, but it has never provided enough space to repudiate the clear meaning of Holy Scripture. To think otherwise is to fall under the sway of the the Adversary.
~From anonymous Blog on the World Wide Web

Modernizing reforms might get good headlines, but in the long run, no one seeks shelter under a tree that bends with the wind.
~Joseph Brean

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell

What fascinates me about our times is not that they are tumultuous, or fast-paced, or even dangerous, but how unbelievably shallow they are. Whole philosophies are declared pass�, while the most superficial banalities become cultural imperatives.
~Mike the Geek

Sober students of history, however, would remember Charles Peguy's devastating indictment: "It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive."
~Charles Peguy

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
~Martin Luther

The devil...the proud spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
~Sir Thomas More

The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.
~A favourite old saying

No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
~demon Azrael in Dogma