Quotations by C. S. Lewis

4 Quotes Found

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations.... There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."
	-C. S. Lewis, in The Weight of Glory, 1980
"If your thoughts and passions were directly present to me, like my own, without any mark of externality or otherness, how should I distinguish them from mine? ... You may reply, as a Christian, that God (and Satan) do, in fact, affect my consciousness in this direct way without signs of "externalility." Yes: and the result is that most people remain ignorant of the existence of both."
	-C. S. Lewis, in The Problem of Pain, 1962
"The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
	-C. S. Lewis, in The Four Loves
"It is wonderful what you can do when you have to."
	-C. S. Lewis