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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Pain

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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

Hurt, Pain, Block

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

Inspirational, Pain, Stains

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.

Depression, Pain, Heart

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Christian, Pain, World

"Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Hurt, Pain, Boys

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Pain, Self, Perfect

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

Pain, Littles, Helping

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.13, Harper Collins

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Pain, Stupidity, World

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

Pain, Opportunity, Men

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Pain, Grief, Losing Everything

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Pain, Real, Believe

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Christian, Pain, Speak

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

Hurt, Pain, Men

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

Pain, Writing, Interesting

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

Pain, Rebel, Flags

I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

Pain, Men, Race

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

Pain, Heaven, Desire

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Pain, Wake Up, World

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

Pain, Reality, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Pain, Fear, Journey

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Pain, Lord, Our Lord

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

Pain, Men, Imagination

C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

Pain, War, Grief

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Love, Pain, Bereavement

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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