Sunday i referenced that quote from CS Lewis.
did some research on it y'day:
the quote is from one of his letters, written to the Reverend Peter Bide on April 29th, 1959. Bide was the Anglican priest who did a 'laying on of hands' healing for Joy Lewis in 1957, and he was also the one who performed the religious wedding of Jack and Joy Lewis (they had earlier had a civil wedding). In 1959 Bide's wife was diagnosed with cancer, and he wrote Jack Lewis to ask him to pray for her. The quote comes from Lewis' response. Oddly, the letter is not in the new three volume C. S. Lewis Collected Letters edited by Walter Hooper, but is in the old (1966) one volume Letters of C. S. Lewis, edited by Warnie Lewis.
C. S. Lewis wrote:
Indeed, indeed we both will. I don't see how any degree of faith can exclude the dismay, since Christ's faith did not save Him from dismay in Gethsemane. We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Letters of C. S. Lewis
