Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not, “So, there’s no God after all,” but, “So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]

A Grief Observed, ch. 1 (1961)