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Quotes from The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis

1898–1963 Ireland

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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

The Great Divorce (1944)

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.

The Great Divorce (1944)

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.

The Great Divorce (1944)

"Milton was right," said my Teacher. "The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery."

The Great Divorce (1944)

'God!' said the Ghost, glancing around the landscape.
'God what?' asked the Spirit.
'What do you mean, "God what"?' asked the Ghost.
'In our grammar God is a noun' said the Spirit.

The Great Divorce (1944)

There have been men before . . . who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself . . . as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

The Great Divorce (1944)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.