C. S. Lewis Quotes About Passion

• We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Self, Envy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Passion, People

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

• Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Strong, Passion

• Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Night, Years

• Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Wisdom, Love You

• Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

  C. S. Lewis

  Falling In Love, Passion, Love Is

• Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Affliction, Christ

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

• We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Real, Passion

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Sky, Littles

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

• And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Omnipotence, Giving

• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

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