To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter… — 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
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. — 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
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — 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
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — 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 hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should… — 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
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
