C. S. Lewis Quotes About Eternity

• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eternity, Childishness

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eternity, Eternal, Worthless

• The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Reality, Two

• He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Heaven, Soul

• One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Army, Space

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul”, p.2, Harper Collins

• The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Rays, Frozen

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Flames, Doe

• The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Enemy, Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

• For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters, Eternity, Concerned

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

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