C. S. Lewis Divorce Quotations

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

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.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

This moment contains all moments.

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...