The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works (ed. HarperCollins UK, 2010) - ISBN: 9780007375769