For Christmas, I recieved a book called A Year with C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. I am a huge fan of his, and I've been reading it dutifully everyday, sometimes twice. Now and then I come across really great lines. Jack (that's what his friends called him) certainly had a way with words (that may be the understatement of the century). I thought I'd share the particularly good nuggets here...
"What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?' We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven..." ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
I would think, anyone who has raised a child through the toddler years can chuckle at the picture these words create, while realizing the somber truth of them as well. Conviction certainly goes down easier with a spoonful of humor.
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