Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.
C. S. LewisTheology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.
C. S. LewisMen became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
C. S. LewisIt is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
C. S. Lewis