3 C. S. Lewis Quotes on Desire

C. S. Lewis quotes on desire

50. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

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74. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

101. All get what they want; they do not always like it. (ch. 14)