C. S. Lewis Quotes about Heart

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Home, Heart, Heaven

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Easter, Food, Heart

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

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Depression, Pain, Heart

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

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Children, Heart, Want

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

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Heart, Should

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

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Heart, Voice, Silence

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

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Hurt, Heart, Silence

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

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Heart, Men, Judging

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

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Heart, Offering, Broken

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

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Heart, Giving, People

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.117, HarperCollins UK

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

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Inspirational, Real, Heart

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

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Heart, Animal, Broken

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

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Children, Heart, Want

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

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Inspirational, Heart, Religion

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

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Heart, Osiris, Order

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

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Heart, Evil, Misery

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

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.

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Heart, Thinking, Heaven

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

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Heart, Mediocrity, Break

Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

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Morning, Memories, Heart

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

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Heart, Judgement, Emotion

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

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Heart, Mean, Acceptance

"The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

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Wise, Children, Heart

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

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Heart, My Heart

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

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Heart, Voice, Religion

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

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Hurt, Heart, Son

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Heart

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