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"What Satan put into the heads of our remote
ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’—could set up on their own
as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of
happiness for themselves outside of God, apart from God. And out of that
hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty,
ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story
of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. The
reason why it can never succeed is this. 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. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food
our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just
no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about
religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because
it is not there. There is no such thing."
-- C. S. Lewis
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