C. S. Lewis Quotes about Joy

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

Evil, Giving, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

C. S. Lewis

Joy, Missing, Soul

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Marriage, Joy

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Joy, Doe

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

C. S. Lewis

Joy, Elements, Praise

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.30, Faber & Faber

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

Evil, Joy, Free Will

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Joy, Waste

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

C. S. Lewis

Joy, Common, Nonsense

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

C. S. Lewis

Sex, Ambition, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

C. S. Lewis

People, Joy, Heaven

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

C. S. Lewis

Hands, Joy, Trying

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

C. S. Lewis

Joy, Desire, Pilgrim

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Joy, Sometimes

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

C. S. Lewis

Joy, Able, Misery

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

C. S. Lewis

Country, Games, Joy

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

C. S. Lewis

Heart, Joy, Ugly

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

C. S. Lewis

Daughter, Long, Joy

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.149, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C. S. Lewis

Often Is, Joy, Pleasure

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Lying, Play, Joy

Every joy is beyond all others.

C. S. Lewis

Joy

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

C. S. Lewis

Joy, Humanity, Saint

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Choices, Joy, Ransom

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Joy

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