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“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
Lori’s 2024 Year in Books
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