“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.”

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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