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Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
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
You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
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
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
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Miracles” (1942), p. 29
- Theology
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. II: “Divine Omnipotence”
- Theology
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“The Road to Begin Your Life ((27 September 2007))”, 58.
- Theology
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows…then we must starve eternally.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
- Theology
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Preface
- Theology
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology