In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."