"a man ought to say..."

"A man really ought to say,
‘The resurrection happened 2000 years ago’
in the same spirit in which he says,
‘I saw a crocus yesterday.’"
-C.S.Lewis

context:

“A man really ought to say, ‘The Resurrection happened 2000 years ago’ in the same spirit in which he says, ‘I saw a crocus yesterday.’ Because we know what is coming behind the crocus. The spring comes slowly down this way; the great thing is that the corner has been turned. There is, of course, this difference, that in the natural spring the crocus cannot choose whether it will respond or not. We can. We have the power either of withstanding the spring, and sinking back into the cosmic winter, or of going on into those ‘high mid-summer pomps’ in which our leader, the Son of Man, already dwells, and to which he is calling us. It remains with us to follow or not, to die in this winter, or to go into that spring and that summer.”
-P. 208, here