Heaven Quotes by C.S. Lewis

19 Heaven quotes by C.S. Lewis

Lewis’s approach to Heaven marries his love of story with earnest Christian thought. Nineteen passages reveal how his narrative imagination illuminates the promise of an eternal home.

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“They have pulled down deep heaven on their heads.”

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“The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

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“I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an…

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“How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain,…

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“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what…

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“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be…

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“So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make…

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“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too…

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“Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions…

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“Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer…

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“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll…

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“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung…

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“If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that…

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“But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will…

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“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be…

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“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what…

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“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him…

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“Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of…

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“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be…

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“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.…

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“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -…

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“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a…

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“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es…

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“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could…

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“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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