Christopher

“He cannot “tempt” to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“WHEN NEWCOMERS to the hunting game suddenly find themselves possessed of a lively imagination and start to draw on that imagination for facts, the result, as a rule, is amusing. If the story they tell is a “tall one,” as it generally is, the old-timer will sit and listen and his only comment will be a laconic “Oh yes!”
― John F. Burger, Horned Death

“I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.”
― J. Golden Kimball

“In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. By comparison, the brains of other apes require only 8 per cent of rest-time energy.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind