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 –
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 –
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
– CS Lewis –
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 –
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 –
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
– TS Eliot –
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
– CS Lewis –
from The Problem of Pain
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
– CS Lewis –
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 –
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