Quote of the Week

This small selection of a letter written by C.S. Lewis provides for us this week’s quote:

Puto fere omnia facinora quae invicem perpetraverunt Christiani ex illo evenerunt quod religio miscetur cum re politica. Diabolus enim supra omnes ceteras humanas vitae partes rem politicam sibi quasi propriam – quasi arcem suae potestatis – vindicat. Nos tamen pro viribus (sc. quisque) suis mutuis orationibus incessanter laboremus pro caritate quae “multitudinem peccatorum tegit.” Vale, sodes et pater.

C.S. Lewis

I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics. For, above all other spheres of human life, the Devil claims politics for his own, as almost the citadel of his power. Let us, however, with mutual prayers pray with all our power for that charity which “covers a multitude of sins.” Farewell, comrade and father.

C.S. Lewis

Letter 24 to Dom. Giovanni Calabria in The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis. trans. Martin Moynihan (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 1998), 82-83.