C. S. LEWIS QUOTES IX

Christian author (1898-1963)

Aim at heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.

C. S. LEWIS

Mere Christianity

Tags: Heaven


There have been men before ... who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself ... as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

C. S. LEWIS

The Great Divorce


If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

C. S. LEWIS

On Living in an Atomic Age

Tags: nuclear war


We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

C. S. LEWIS

A Grief Observed

Tags: grief


The only people who object to escapism are jailers.

C. S. LEWIS

attributed, God, The Universe and Everything Else


The Christian ... does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

C. S. LEWIS

Mere Christianity