John

“Joy is distinct not only from pleasure in general but even from aesthetic pleasure. It must have the stab, the pang, the inconsolable longing.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Long since on Mars and more strongly since he came to Perelandra, Ransom had been perceiving that the triple distinction of truth from myth and both from fact was purely terrestrial-was part and parcel of that unhappy distinction between soul and body which resulted from the fall. Even on earth the sacraments existed as a permanent reminder that the division was neither wholesome nor final. The Incarnation had been the beginning of its disappearance. In Perelandra it would have no meaning at all.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.”
― Vince Flynn, American Assassin