February 12, 2007

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it."
- C. S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 32)

"Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist- in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless- I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice- was full of sense. Consequently 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; just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning."
- C. S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 39)