CS Lewis Christian Quotes on Marriage and Unity:
1. "A man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism."
— C.S. Lewis
2. "The inventor of the human machine was telling us that its two halves, the male and the female, were made to be combined together in pairs—not simply on the sexual level, but totally combined."
— C.S. Lewis
3. "The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union from all the other kinds of union."
— C.S. Lewis
CS Lewis Christian Quotes on Promises and Justice:
4. "Everyone who has been married in a church has made a public, solemn promise to stick to his (or her) partner till death."
— C.S. Lewis
5. "The duty of keeping that promise has no special connection with sexual morality: it is in the same position as any other promise."
— C.S. Lewis
6. "Unchastity is not improved by adding perjury."
— C.S. Lewis
CS Lewis Christian Quotes on Love and Commitment:
7. "Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing."
— C.S. Lewis
8. "Ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love."
— C.S. Lewis
9. "Love in this second sense... is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."
— C.S. Lewis
10. "‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise."
— C.S. Lewis
11. "It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it."
— C.S. Lewis
12. "Let the thrill go—let it die away—go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow—and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time."
— C.S. Lewis
13. "It is much better fun to learn to swim than to go on endlessly trying to get back the feeling you had when you first went paddling as a small boy."
— C.S. Lewis
14. "No feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all."
— C.S. Lewis
15. "Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go."
— C.S. Lewis
16. "Who would urge the high and hard duty of chastity on people who have not yet wished to be merely honest?"
— C.S. Lewis
17. "They wanted the respectability that is attached to marriage without intending to pay the price: that is, they were impostors, they cheated."
— C.S. Lewis
18. "You cannot have a permanent association without a constitution."
— C.S. Lewis
19. "The function of the husband is to see that this natural preference of hers is not given its head."
— C.S. Lewis
26. "They all regard divorce as something like cutting up a living body, as a kind of surgical operation."
— C.S. Lewis
27. "Some of them think the operation so violent that it cannot be done at all; others admit it as a desperate remedy in extreme cases."
— C.S. Lewis
28. "It is more like having both your legs cut off than it is like dissolving a business partnership."
— C.S. Lewis
29. "What they all disagree with is the modern view that it is a simple readjustment of partners."
— C.S. Lewis
30. "If people do not believe in permanent marriage, it is perhaps better that they should live together unmarried than that they should make vows they do not mean to keep."
— C.S. Lewis
31. "Whom, then, was he trying to deceive when he made it? God? That was really very unwise. Himself? That was not very much wiser."
— C.S. Lewis
32. "They were impostors, they cheated."
— C.S. Lewis
33. "If they have now come to their senses and want to be honest, their promise, already made, constrains them."
— C.S. Lewis
34. "This comes under the heading of justice, not that of chastity."
— C.S. Lewis
35. "The idea that ‘being in love’ is the only reason for remaining married really leaves no room for marriage as a contract or promise at all."
— C.S. Lewis
36. "Lovers themselves, while they remain really in love, know this better than those who talk about love."
— C.S. Lewis
37. "Love songs all over the world are full of vows of eternal constancy."
— C.S. Lewis
38. "The Christian law is not forcing upon the passion of love something which is foreign to that passion’s own nature."
— C.S. Lewis
39. "It is demanding that lovers should take seriously something which their passion of itself impels them to do."
— C.S. Lewis
40. "A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way."
— C.S. Lewis
41. "He might as well promise never to have a headache or always to feel hungry."
— C.S. Lewis
42. "There are several sound, social reasons; to provide a home for their children, to protect the woman... from being dropped whenever the man is tired of her."
— C.S. Lewis
43. "Being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centredness."
— C.S. Lewis
44. "Being in love is a glorious state, and, in several ways, good for us."
— C.S. Lewis
45. "It helps to make us generous and courageous."
— C.S. Lewis
46. "It opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the beloved but to all beauty."
— C.S. Lewis
47. "Love is the great conqueror of lust."
— C.S. Lewis
48. "Being in love is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling."
— C.S. Lewis
49. "If the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’ is taken to mean ‘They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married’, then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true."
— C.S. Lewis
50. "Ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love."
— C.S. Lewis
51. "They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other."
— C.S. Lewis
52. "As you love yourself even when you do not like yourself."
— C.S. Lewis
53. "They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else."
— C.S. Lewis
54. "The dying away of the first thrill will be compensated for by a quieter and more lasting kind of interest."
— C.S. Lewis
55. "It is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to the sober interest, who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some quite different direction."
— C.S. Lewis
56. "The man who has learned to fly and become a good pilot will suddenly discover music."
— C.S. Lewis
57. "The man who has settled down to live in the beauty spot will discover gardening."
— C.S. Lewis
58. "This is, I think, one little part of what Christ meant by saying that a thing will not really live unless it first dies."
— C.S. Lewis
59. "It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do."
— C.S. Lewis
60. "Let the thrill go—let it die away—go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow."
— C.S. Lewis
I hope you enjoyed these quotes Christian Quotes by CS Lewis. As with all endeavors, marriage is a beautiful one, but will take lots of encouragement to see it through. May God BLESS.