George MacDonald was a Scottish preacher and author, whose writings played a significant role in C.S. Lewis’ conversion. Here is what he says about spiritual doubt:
“[F]or a man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.”
George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Second Series, “The Voice of Job”; cited in C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald: An Anthology 365 Readings (New York: HarperOne, 1946), 78).
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