C. S. Lewis Quotes About Dying

• Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Dying, Christ

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Osiris, Order

• If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

  C. S. Lewis

  Death, Home, Thinking

• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Imagination, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Jesus, Dying

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Dying

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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