C. S. Lewis Quotes

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

Dad passed away in 2000, but he visits me all the time. He comes to me in different ways. So I have that connection with him, and that comforts me, to know that in time I can come back and still have that with my kids. It's not unfamiliar to me, that connection with the afterlife. I know it's real; I experience it all the time.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

The natural world is the lowest element, the scum of creation. What is decisive is the beyond: the divine world, that is eternal.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.