What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God b... - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?"
More quotes by C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."
"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."
"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house."
"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."