Quotes from CS Lewis
You die and die and then you are beyond death.
- CS Lewis
How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.
- CS Lewis
[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.
- CS Lewis
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
- CS Lewis
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
- CS Lewis
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- CS Lewis
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
- CS Lewis
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
- CS Lewis
Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.
- CS Lewis
There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.
- CS Lewis
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
- CS Lewis
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
- CS Lewis