We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C.S. Lewis Quotes
No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.
We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.
Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.
The story is, I fear, suffocatingly subjective; the kind of thing I have never written before and shall probably never write again. I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can’t bear such a story will see at once what they are in for and close the book with the least […]
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – “Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,” as (George) Herbert says, “fine nets and stratagems.” God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
How right you are when you say, “Christianity is a terrible thing for a life long atheist to have to face.”
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the […]
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
