The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of …

C. S. Lewis
1624 citations
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.
Thought
14

More Author Quotes

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For … ▶
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). God in the Dock, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p … ▶
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and church … ▶

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes