But I pray to be delivered from both." "'Then who shall stand if Thou, O Lord, dost mark iniquity ?'" Lewis quoted.
"There are two men only who will not be ashamed to look their work in the face in the end--the brazen opportunist and the rigid Puritan.
Suppose you had some desperate frontier work to get through with and a body of men to pick for it, whom would you take?
Not the ordinary, colourless, respectable being, and still less academic nonentities! If I had my pick, my companions should either be the narrowest religionists or frank, unashamed blackguards.

I should go to the Calvinists and the fanatics for choice, but if I could not get them then I should have the rankers.

For, don't you see, the first would have the fear of God in them, and that somehow keeps a man from fearing anything else.

They would do their work because they believed it to be their duty.

And the second would have the love of the sport in them, and they should also be made to dwell in the fear of me.