“A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere… God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.”

Source: Surprised by Joy (1955), p. 191

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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