2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

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.

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.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

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.