Mr. Lewis

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"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." -C.S. Lewis, 1966

One of the many reasons I love Mr. Lewis, who described himself with "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming."

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You quote Lewis as saying:

"I came into Christianity kicking and screaming"

Where is this quote from? I can't find a source for it.

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Hmm, not certain. Allow me to check.

Apparently it's an oversimplification of a quotation from "Surprised by Joy," the autobiography of his conversion, which is actually that he came to Christianity like a prodigal, "kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance to escape."