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Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
- Theology
There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God will say ‘Thy will be done.’
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI: “Human Pain”
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.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. IV
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 3, “The Shocking Alternative”
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
- Prayer
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book I, Chapter 5, “We Have Cause to Be Uneasy”
- Morality
God is not proud…He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952) ch. 1
If the universe is so bad…how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Encounter with Light
- Theology
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory
- Work