C. S. Lewis Quotes about Suffering

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I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

C. S. Lewis

Children, Thinking, Suffering

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

C. S. Lewis

Honesty, Suffering

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

C. S. Lewis

Life, Order, Suffering

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

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

C. S. Lewis

Love Is, Long, Suffering

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

C. S. Lewis

Soul, Suffering, Limits

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

C. S. Lewis

Grief, Writing, Suffering

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

C. S. Lewis

Suffering, Together, Enjoy

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

C. S. Lewis

War, Knights, Suffering

H. S. Bennett, E. K. Chambers, C. S. Lewis, Douglas Bush, W. L. Remwick (1954). “The Oxford History of English Literature”

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

C. S. Lewis

Writing, Men, Suffering

So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

C. S. Lewis

Men, Suffering, Needs

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.60, HarperCollins UK