C. S. Lewis Quotes about Passion

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We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy,

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

C. S. Lewis

Passion, Self, Envy

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Passion, People

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

C. S. Lewis

Passion, Night, Years

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

C. S. Lewis

Falling In Love, Passion, Love Is

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

C. S. Lewis

Passion, Affliction, Christ

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

C. S. Lewis

Wisdom, Strong, Passion

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

C. S. Lewis

Passion, Omnipotence, Giving

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

C. S. Lewis

Attitude, Real, Passion

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing