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May 03, 2007
C. S. Lewis - How to Avoid God, and how He will find you.
How to Avoid God
Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully. But you'd be safer to stick to the papers. You'll find the advertisements helpful; especially those with a sexy or a snobbish appeal.
C. S. Lewis, "The Seeing Eye" in Christian Reflections (Eeerdmans, 1967), pp. 168-167 (from Maverick Philosopher)
Looking for God
I never had the experience of looking for God. It was the other way round; He was the hunter (or so it seemed to me) and I was the deer. He stalked me like a redskin, took unerring aim, and fired.
From "Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: the gift of friendship," by Colin Duriez
And see the video for Johnny Cash's song, "God's Gonna Cut You Down"
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