Luther and Lewis

The Lord spent three days preaching in the Temple [in holy week], because He had never before been so deeply moved, for He sensed the peril of the hour pressing upon Him. The dear Lord Jesus would gladly have seen a different response.—Martin Luther, Sermon from 1531, Day by Day, p. 302.

There is, in fact, a fatal tendency in all human activities for the means to encroach upon the very ends which they are intended to serve.... The Christian is called not to individualism but to membership in the mystical body. A consideration of the difference between a secular collective and the mystical body is therefore the first step to understanding how Christianity without being individualistic can yet counteract collectivism.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, pp. 209, 210.