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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Heaven

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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

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

Journey, Heaven, Helping

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

Men, Heaven, Humanity

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Doors, Heaven, Useless

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

Philosophical, Heaven, Religion

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Father, Long, Heaven

"A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works".

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

Real, Heaven, Great Divorce

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.

Fall, Heaven, Earth

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Agony, Heaven, Glory

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.

Heart, Thinking, Heaven

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

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

Men, Heaven, Soul

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

Heaven, Choices, Soul

"The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Spiritual, Blood, Heaven

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Diversity, Heaven, Grace

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

Blessed, Heaven, Ends

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

Heaven, Made, Seems

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

Agony, Knowing, Heaven

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

Believe, Names, Heaven

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

People, Joy, Heaven

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

Past, Men, Heaven

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

Heaven, Able, Hell

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Heaven, Care, Ordinary

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.91, Harper Collins

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Pain, Heaven, Desire

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Heaven, Hell, Variety

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

Thinking, Heaven, Earth

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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