The search for a suitable church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.
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- Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. β¨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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