Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.' — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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