C. S. Lewis Quotes About Expectations

• We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Blessed, Reality

• And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Years, Expectations

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Believe, Eye

• Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Expectations, Whole Life

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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