C. S. Lewis Quotes About Desire

• No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Missing, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Strong, Sex, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

• If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, Ministry, World

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Lust

• It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Desire, Mud Puddles

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

• There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Two, People

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

• The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

• Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

• One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Animal, Reality

• We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Perfect, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Evil, Desire

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

• Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, Glory

• A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Believe, Desire

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.88, HarperCollins UK

• It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Desire, Satisfaction

  "Joyful Christian".

• In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Desire, Needs

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Desire, Alive

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.119, HarperCollins UK

• It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Desire, Moments

• All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Desire, Pilgrim

• There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Thinking, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Baby, Water, Swim

• Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, Want, Littles

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