Andrew Branch

“By not belonging to a press-cutting agency I miss most of the bouquets and brickbats which are aimed at me. So I never saw the article you write about. But I have seen others of that kind, and they’ll break no bones of mine. Don’t, however, misjudge these ‘liberal Christians’. They genuinely believe that writers of my sort are doing a great deal of harm. They themselves find it impossible to accept most of the articles of the ‘faith once given to the saints’. They are nevertheless extremely anxious that some vestigial religion which they (not we) can describe as ‘Christianity’ should continue to exist and make numerous converts. They think these converts will come in only if this religion is sufficiently ‘de-mythologised’. The ship must be lightened if she is to keep afloat.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters, Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man; The Four Loves; Reflect...

“There was no region even in the innermost depth of one’s soul (nay, there least of all) which one could surround with a barbed wire fence and guard with a notice No Admittance. And that was what I wanted; some area, however small, of which I could say to all other beings, ‘This is my business and mine only.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters, Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man; The Four Loves; Reflect...

“You may ask how I combined this directly Atheistical thought, this great ‘Argument from Undesign’ with my Occultist fancies. I do not think I achieved any logical connection between them. They swayed me in different moods, and had only this in common, that both made against Christianity.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters, Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man; The Four Loves; Reflect...

“We can bear to be refused but not to be ignored. In other words, our faith can survive many refusals if they really are refusals and not mere disregards. The apparent stone will be bread to us if we believe that a Father’s hand put it into ours, in mercy or in justice or even in rebuke. It is hard and bitter, yet it can be chewed and swallowed.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters, Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain; A Grief Observed; The Abolition of Man; The Four Loves; Reflect...