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  • Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

  • There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

    Men   Care   Christianity  
    "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.
  • I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

    "Unseen CS Lewis letter defines his notion of joy" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2014.
  • If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

    Heaven   Able   Hell  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

    Reality   Feet   Shadow  
  • I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • No people find each other more absurd than lovers

    People   Lovers   Absurd  
  • It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. 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.

    Strong   Sex   Children  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

    Mother   Art   Lust  
  • This moment contains all moments.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

    Past   Men   Heaven  
  • That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

    Agony   Knowing   Heaven  
  • Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

    Agony   Heaven   Glory  
  • Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

    Joy   Able   Misery  
    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

    Self   Two   People  
    "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.
  • Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

  • Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

    C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Great Divorce”, p.8, HarperCollins UK
  • We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

    Circles   Two   Long  
    C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Great Divorce”, p.8, HarperCollins UK
  • Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

    Real   Heaven   Mind  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

  • I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

    Country   Believe   Eye  
  • Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

  • Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  • We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

    Sex   Ambition   Joy  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

    Hurt   Reality   Feet  
  • Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

    Eye   Hands   Sound  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

  • The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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