Where was God on that December night? Why didn't he stop it?

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

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anthony hopkins c. s. lewis december god

5 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:11:20.564 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What time is it? Good Lord, my train. Anyway. Well... See you all tomorrow. Bye.

- Bye. Cheerio, Jack.

- See you then.

- Goodbye, Mr. Lewis.

- Yesterday, I received a letter that referred to an event that took place almost a year ago now. December 4, 1951.

- My correspondent hadn't forgotten. I doubt if any of us have.

- That was the night a Number One bus drove into a column of young Royal Marine cadets in Chatham and killed 24 of them. You remember?

- And the letter asks some simple but fundamental questions.

- Where was God on that December night? Why didn't he stop it?

- Isn't God supposed to be good? Isn't he supposed to love us?

- And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? 'Cause I'm not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up.

- I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he makes us the gift of suffering. To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

- You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

- Thank you very much.

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And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? 'Cause I'm not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up.

I love you, Joy. I love you so much. You've made me so happy. I didn't know I could be so happy.

The delight that never fades... The bliss that is eternal is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach.

Why? See, if you love someone, you don't want them to suffer. You can't bear it. You want to take their suffering onto yourself. Even I feel like that. Why doesn't God?

Twice in that life, I've been given the choice. As a boy, and as a man. The boy chose safety. The man chooses suffering.

Shadowlands Sound Clip

Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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