Lewis on Various Subjects

Here are some quotes on an assortment of topics from The Problem Of Pain.

"What we would here and now call our 'happiness' is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."

"Christianity now has to preach the diagnosis--in itself very bad news--before it can win a hearing for the cure."

"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'."

"We are not merely imperfect creatures which must be improved: we are, as Newman said, rebels who must lay down our arms."

"The thing you long for summons you away from the self. Even the desire for the thing lives only if you abandon it. This is the ultimate law--the seed dies to live, the bread must be cast upon the waters, he that loses his soul will save it. But the life of the seed, the finding of the bread, the recovery of the soul, are as real as the preliminary sacrifice."