Monthly Archive for May 2015
Who wants the truth?
* Both of these quotes in book; Quotable Lewis Intro p. 24 and 25
“ Modern Man and His Categories of Thought” in Present Concerns: Essays by C.S. Lewis (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986), 65.
“Man is becoming narrowly “practical” as the irrational animals. In lecturing to modern audiences I have repeatedly found it impossible to make them understand that I recommended Christianity because I thought its affirmations to be objectively true. They are simply not interested in the question of truth or falsehood. They only want to know if it will be comforting, or “inspiring” or socially useful.”
C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 39.
“The Christian religion… does not begin in comfort; it begins in 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.”