C. S. Lewis is one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. This week let's dive into one of his classic works: A Grief Observed. It is a beautiful compilation of Lewis's reflections on sorrow and grief, which he wrote after the death of his wife.

"What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?"

"The kinder and more conscientious he is, the more inexorably he will go on cutting."

"If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards."

"You will never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."

"Nothing less will shake a man...out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs...Only torture will bring out the truth."

"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't."

Lewis, C. S. A Grief Observed. HarperOne, 1994.

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