59 Quotes by C. S. Lewis (Sound Clips)

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1 And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? 'Cause I'm not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

2 The delight that never fades... The bliss that is eternal is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

3 I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he makes us the gift of suffering. To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

4 Well, just because something hurts, it doesn't make it more true or more significant. -No, I guess not.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

5 Pain is a tool. If you like, pain is God's megaphone... -Megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

6 We think our childish toys bring us all the happiness there is and our nursery is the whole wide world. But something... Something must drive us out of the nursery to the world of others, and that something is suffering.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

7 Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this, nothing time. Not this, waiting room of the world.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

8 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.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

9 Shadows. -What? -It's one of my stories. We live in the Shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else. Round a bend in the road. Over the brow of a hill.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

10 Why? See, if you love someone, you don't want them to suffer. You can't bear it. You want to take their suffering onto yourself. Even I feel like that. Why doesn't God?

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

59 Quotes by C. S. Lewis (Sound Clips)

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