Luther and Lewis

Because we have to live on earth, and so long as it is God’s will, we should eat, drink, woo, plant, build, and have house and home and what God grants, and use them as guests and strangers in a strange land, who know that they must leave all such things behind and take our staff out of this strange land and evil, homeward bound for our true fatherland where there is nothing but security, peace, rest, and joy forevermore.—Martin Luther, Sermon, 1531.

It would be even worse to think of those who get what they for as sort of court favourites, people who have influence with the throne. The refused prayer of Christ in Gethsemane is answer enough to that.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 287.