One of my favorite quotes by C. S. Lewis is from his popular book Mere Christianity.
But if you are a poor creature—poisoned by a wretched upbringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels—saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion—nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends—do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day… you may astonish us all—not least yourself: for you have learned your driving in a hard school.1
Let’s be honest: in this particular quote, Lewis shows himself to be an equal-opportunity offender. His strong language and provocative examples catch us off guard, push our buttons, and seem to offend most everyone. For some, it’s finding his use of “loathsome” to be callous and uninformed. For others, his statement “no choice of our own” avoids issues of sin and culpability. Whatever it is, most of us can find something in this quote that we take issue with.
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