on weights, pressures and gravity
C. S. Lewis
Book II: What Christians Believe, 3. The Shocking Alternative
Mere Christianity
“ And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. ”
C. S. Lewis
Book II: What Christians Believe, 3. The Shocking Alternative
Mere Christianity
“ What is it then that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.
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Blaise Pascal
Penseés
425, Section VII: Morality and Doctrine
“ Now shall I walk
Or shall I ride?
“Ride”, Pleasure said;
“Walk”, Joy replied. ”
“The Best Friend”
William Henry Davis