If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
– CS Lewis –
September 10, 2014
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
– CS Lewis –
July 22, 2014
Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
– CS Lewis –
March 9, 2014
All that we call human history – money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery – [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
– CS Lewis –
May 11, 2013
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
– TS Eliot –
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