His works live on in the minds and hearts of those who read them, and his spirit lives on eternally at the footstool of the HOLY ONE.
Here is a brief smattering of his profound thoughts:
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and
goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person
you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you
would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption
such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.
"All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
"Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals with whom we joke, work, marry, snub, and exploit — immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken GOD and each other seriously."
C. S. Lewis, from his sermon The Weight of Glory
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.
"We are far too easily pleased."
C. S. Lewis from Mere Christianity
"All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
"Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals with whom we joke, work, marry, snub, and exploit — immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken GOD and each other seriously."
C. S. Lewis, from his sermon The Weight of Glory
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.
"We are far too easily pleased."
C. S. Lewis from Mere Christianity
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