“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis
Born in Ireland in 1899 Lewis was a scholar an author and most of all he was a man of strong Christian faith. You probably know his most beloved children’s books the chronicles of Narnia, but did you know he wrote over 30 other books? That he held degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, that the author of the Hobbit, J.R. Tolkien, was one of his best friends and that as a child C.S. Lewis was at an atheist? Lewis lost his mother at a young age and didn’t marry until his old age and then lost his wife a few short years later. Yet through all of these challenges Lewis was able to not only speak to his generation of love, joy, faith and truth but to our generation! Recently I read a book by Lewis entitled the “problem of Pain” it’s a short book and quite theological but I would highly recommend it to any who have wrestled with this question: how can God be all good and all powerful?
C.S. Lewis – “God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
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