“It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“...our role as comforters is not to solve the problem of pain; even less is it to stick up for God. Trying… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“Jesus asks parents to make yet another choice. Are we raising our children to be safe or to be brave? Are we… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
“I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy the animals… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Oxford scholar C. S. Lewis, an atheist turned believer, wrestles with the idea of hell in his book The Problem of Pain… — John Burke Copy Share Image
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
“Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“If on such grounds, or on better ones, we follow the course in which humanity has been led, and become Christians, we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image