C. S. Lewis Hell Quotations

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.