Luther and Lewis

His love is such a burning fire, I hold, that no human thought could fathom it. The man who does not see or heed it must be as blind as a bat, or as hard as stone, or dead.—Martin Luther, Sermon, 1532

The carnal or animally sexual element within Eros, I intend (following an old usage) to call Venus. And I mean by Venus what is sexual not in some cryptic or rarified sense—such as a depth-psychologist might explore—but in a perfectly obvious sense; what is known to be sexual by those who experience it; what could be proved to be sexual by the simplest observations.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 163.