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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. C.S. Lewis - Surprised by Joy
To be discontinuous from God as I am discontinuous from you would be annihilation. C.S. Lewis - Letters to Malcolm
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere- 'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. C.S. Lewis - Surprised by Joy