“[God] is not proud…He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.”
–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.”–The Problem of Pain
“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.”
–The Problem of Pain
“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.”
–The Problem of Pain
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
–The Problem of Pain
“A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional…values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”
–The Abolition of Man
“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.”
–Mere Christianity
“If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes…it cuts its own throat.”–A Christian Reply to Professor Price
“Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.”–Christian Reflections
“A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid…”
–Christian Reflections