The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
– CS Lewis –
CS Lewis
June 30, 2013
My owns plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.
– Reepicheep –
from CS Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader
June 27, 2013
The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.
– CS Lewis –
April 5, 2013
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
– CS Lewis –
from The Problem of Pain
March 17, 2013
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
– CS Lewis –
February 28, 2013
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
– CS Lewis –
February 27, 2013
Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop into good.’ Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters of dissevering power’–or else not. It still ‘either-or’. If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
– CS Lewis–
from The Great Divorce
January 10, 2013
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
– CS Lewis –
December 22, 2012
If you insist on keeping hell, (or even earth) you will never see heaven. If you accept heaven you will not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
– CS Lewis –