C.S. Lewis on Grief Quotes

“But of course one must take 'sent to try us' the right way. God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.”
― C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis on Grief

“And the past is the past and that is what time means, and time itself is one more name for death, and Heaven itself is a state where the former things have passed away.”
― C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis on Grief

“And the past is the past and that is what time means, and time itself is one more name for death, and Heaven itself is a state where ‘the former things have passed away.”
― C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis on Grief