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Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
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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”
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
?UnattributedOften credited to C. S. Lewis
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
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
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
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
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”
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.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
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
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Preface
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963