The Problem of Pain

by C.S. Lewis

in the words of good Walter Hilton, that throughout this book “I feel myself so far from true feeling of that I speak, that I can naught else but cry mercy and desire after it as I may”.1

when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

It is a remarkable fact that no canonical writer has ever used Nature to prove God.

numinous awe is as old as humanity itself.