“Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.” MindSaidRealEndsStatesRealityLeftHeavenHellCreaturesHeavenlyState Of MindDungeonsGreat Divorce Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.” InspirationalLittlesDreamPastSufferingTurnsEvilHeavenReligiousSinPleasureKnowingGloryConsequenceLet MeSpreadMortalsBlissGood And EvilTemporaryNot KnowingAgonyBackwardsDamnationRetrospectiveGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.” InspirationalShouldSelfAbleJoyUniverseHeavenTermReligiousHellTasteDemandFinalsConsentBlackmailLovelessVetoGreat Divorce Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis