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.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.