Sunday, January 24, 2010

Finding Comfort

All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts - to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer. And they are very terrifying facts. I wish it were possible to say something more agreeable. But I must say what I think true. Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay I have been describing, and it is of no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. - C.S Lewis, Mere Christianity

1 comments:

kimmmoi said...

Now....just had some major no-longer-writing-in-english issues. But it's ok. It's fine now.

Now...I know you're not using facebook these days. And I know tomorrow you'll be a little older, and I may not still be in the realms of 0s and 1s, so I'd like to take this opportunity to say have a good time getting older tomorrow. :)