Luther and Lewis

The sun, moon, stars, clouds, air, earth, and water are no longer so pure, and beautiful, and lovely as they were. But on that day all things will be made new and will once more be beautiful as St. Paul says in Romans viii.—Martin Luther, Sermon, 1537

To the Materialist things like nations, classes, civilizations must be more important than individuals, because individuals live only seventy-odd years each and the group may last for centuries. But to the Christian, individuals are more important, for they live eternally; and races, civilizations and the like, are in comparison the creatures of a day.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 294.