mere-christianity

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history__oney, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery__he long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity