Lillian P.’s Reviews > Mere Christianity > Status Update

"Perfect behavior may be as unattainable as perfect gear-changing when we drive; but it is a necessary ideal prescribed for all men by the very nature of the human machine just as perfect gear-changing is an ideal prescribed for all drivers by the very nature of cars."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth---only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair."

"It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinions any more than the multiplication table."

Let's see if Lewis can successfully refute the meaningless absurdism of Camus or the atheistic existentialism of Sartre.