C. S. Lewis Promise Quotations

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.