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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Joy

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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Evil, Giving, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Joy, Missing, Soul

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

Inspirational, Marriage, Joy

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

Christian, Joy, Doe

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Joy, Elements, Praise

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.30, Faber & Faber

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Evil, Joy, Free Will

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Happiness, Joy, Waste

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Joy, Common, Nonsense

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Sex, Ambition, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

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

People, Joy, Heaven

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Hands, Joy, Trying

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Joy, Desire, Pilgrim

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Inspirational, Joy, Sometimes

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Love, Happiness, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

Joy, Able, Misery

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Country, Games, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

Heart, Joy, Ugly

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

Daughter, Long, Joy

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.149, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Often Is, Joy, Pleasure

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Lying, Play, Joy

Every joy is beyond all others.

Joy

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

Joy, Humanity, Saint

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

Choices, Joy, Ransom

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