“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

Letters of C. S. Lewis (29 April 1959), para. 1, p. 285 — as reported in The Quotable Lewis (1989), p. 469

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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