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 […]
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.
I was at this time living like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
