The Problem of Pain

by C.S. Lewis

‘He jests at scars who never felt a wound’, for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable.

my conviction that 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.

If any real theologian reads these pages he will very easily see that they are the work of a layman and an amateur.

but I have tried to assume nothing that is not professed by all baptised and communicating Christians.

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