Sunday, November 29, 2020

C.S. Lewis Living in an Atomic Age

 I have seen a few quote out there from C.S. Lewis "Living in the Atomic Age" During Covid. Here is my favourite from that article. Hers is early defined as Nature.

"It is our business to live by our own law not by hers: to follow, in private or in public life, the law of love and temperance even when  they  seem  to  be  suicidal,  and  not  the  law  of  competition  and  grab,  even when they seem to be  necessary to our  survival. For it is part of our spiritual law never to put survival first: not even the survival of our species. We must resolutely train  ourselves  to  feel  that  the  survival  of  Man  on  this  Earth,  much  more  of  our own  nation  or  culture  of  class,  is  not  worth  having  unless  it  can  be  had  by honourable and merciful means. The  sacrifice  is  not  so  great  as  it  seems.  
 
Nothing  is  more  likely  to  destroy  a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs. Those who care for something else more than civilization are the only people by whom civilization is at all likely to be preserved. Those who want Heaven must have served Earth best. Those who love Man less than God do most for Man."
 
God help us to love you first above all else
God help us to put others above ourself
God teach us to listen to you
God teach us to follow you
God help us when the going gets tough

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