“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”

— Clive Staples Lewis , book A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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