2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

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.

If you don’t listen to theology, that won’t mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it – made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can’t put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.