“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book Mere Christianity

Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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