C. S. Lewis Quotes About Pain

• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Pain, Stains

• Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, Pain, Heart

• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

• Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Pain, World

  "Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

• If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Broken Heart, Hurt

• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Pain, Speak

• I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Block

• The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Self, Perfect

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Boys

• Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Grief, Losing Everything

• If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Writing, Interesting

• The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

• God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

• The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Men

• We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Opportunity, Men

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Real, Believe

• We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Stupidity, World

• when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Littles, Helping

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.13, Harper Collins

• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Pain, Bereavement

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

• Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, War, Grief

• The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Lord, Our Lord

• You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Fear, Journey

• I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Race

• No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Imagination

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins

• Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Heaven, Desire

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