"Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I...

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
~ C. S. Lewis ~












By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee th...
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"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
"Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.
"When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but l...
"...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I hav...
"As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
"There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lo...
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.