C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain Quotes
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.
I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.
Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.
The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.