All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. — 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
Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the… — 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
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little… — 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
“You look right out into the high place and see the great dance with your own eyes. You live always in that… — 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
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — 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
