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Clive Staples Lewis

Geburtstag: 29. November 1898
Todesdatum: 24. November 1963
Andere Namen:C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis war ein irischer Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler. Er lehrte am Magdalen College der University of Oxford und hatte den Lehrstuhl für Englische Literatur des Mittelalters und der Renaissance an der University of Cambridge inne. Er ist vor allem im angloamerikanischen Raum bekannt für seine Kinderbuchserie Die Chroniken von Narnia.

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„Ein bloßer Mensch, der solche Dinge sagen würde, wie Jesus sie gesagt hat, wäre kein großer Morallehrer. […] Entweder war – und ist – dieser Mensch Gottes Sohn, oder er war ein Narr oder Schlimmeres. Wir können ihn als Geisteskranken einsperren, wir können ihn verachten oder als Dämon töten. Oder wir können ihm zu Füßen fallen und ihn Herr und Gott nennen. Aber wir können ihn nicht mit gönnerhafter Herablassung als einen großen Lehrer der Menschheit bezeichnen. Das war nie seine Absicht; diese Möglichkeit hat er uns nicht offengelassen.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Pardon, ich bin Christ. 18. Auflage. Brunnen Verlag, Basel 2006. ISBN 3-7655-3150-2 S. 56

Über Gott, über menschen

„Die beste Waffe des Teufels ist der Glaube der Menschen, es gebe keine Möglichkeit, ihn loszuwerden, außer indem sie ihm nachgeben.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Dienstanweisungen an einen Unterteufel

Über Menschen, über glauben

„Gott flüstert in unseren Freuden, er spricht in unserem Gewissen; in unseren Schmerzen aber ruft er laut. Sie sind sein Megaphon, eine taube Welt aufzuwecken.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Über den Schmerz

Über Gott, über schmerzen, über die welt

„Ich glaube an Christus, so wie ich glaube, dass die Sonne aufgegangen ist, nicht nur, weil ich sie sehe, sondern weil ich durch sie alles andere sehen kann.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Ist Theologie Dichtung?, in: Das Gewicht der Herrlichkeit und andere Essays

Über Ehe

„Der Kernpunkt des christlichen Glaubens besteht darin, dass uns der Tod Christi irgendwie mit Gott versöhnt und die Möglichkeit zu einem Neubeginn gegeben hat.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Pardon, ich bin Christ

Über Tod, über gott, über glauben

„Wer alles durchschaut, sieht nichts mehr.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Die Abschaffung des Menschen, S.82

„Am Ende werden nur zwei Gruppen von Menschen vor Gott stehen - jene, die zu Gott sagen: »Dein Wille geschehe«, und jene, zu denen Gott sagt: »Dein Wille geschehe«. Alle, die in der Hölle sind, haben sie sich erwählt.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Die große Scheidung, 9. Kapitel

Über Gott, über ehe, über menschen

„You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
As quoted in Of This and Other Worlds (1982) by Walter Hooper, Preface, p. 9

„You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"

„Does God then forsake just those who serve Him best? Well, He who served Him best of all said, near His tortured death, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” When God becomes man, that Man, of all others, is least comforted by God, at His greatest need. There is a mystery here which, even if I had the power, I might not have the courage to explore. Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate. It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favorites, people who have influence with the throne. The refused prayer of Christ in Gethsemane is answer enough to that. And I dare not leave out the hard saying which I once heard from an experienced Christian: “I have seen many striking answers to prayer and more than one that I thought miraculous. But they usually come at the beginning: before conversion, or soon after it. As the Christian life proceeds, they tend to be rarer. The refusals, too, are not only more frequent; they become more unmistakable, more emphatic.” Does God then forsake just those who serve Him best? Well, He who served Him best of all said, near His tortured death, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” When God becomes man, that Man, of all others, is least comforted by God, at His greatest need. There is a mystery here which, even if I had the power, I might not have the courage to explore. Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

„When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25

„I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: I don't deserve a share in governing a hen-roost, much less a nation. Nor do most people — all the people who believe advertisements, and think in catchwords and spread rumors. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

„Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside of the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips. Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"

„There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: 'But what of the poor Ghosts who never get into the omnibus at all?' 'Everyone who wishes it does. Never fear. There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.' Ch. 9, p. 72; part of this has also been rendered in a variant form, and quoted as:

„I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. Hyoi, p. 76

„God designed the human machine to run on Himself.“

— Clive Staples Lewis
Context: God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"

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Zitate Clive Staples Lewis

„Die beste Waffe des Teufels ist der Glaube der Menschen, es gebe keine Möglichkeit, ihn loszuwerden, außer indem sie ihm nachgeben.“

„Gott flüstert in unseren Freuden, er spricht in unserem Gewissen; in unseren Schmerzen aber ruft er laut. Sie sind sein Megaphon, eine taube Welt aufzuwecken.“

„Ich glaube an Christus, so wie ich glaube, dass die Sonne aufgegangen ist, nicht nur, weil ich sie sehe, sondern weil ich durch sie alles andere sehen kann.“

„Der Kernpunkt des christlichen Glaubens besteht darin, dass uns der Tod Christi irgendwie mit Gott versöhnt und die Möglichkeit zu einem Neubeginn gegeben hat.“

„Wer alles durchschaut, sieht nichts mehr.“

„Am Ende werden nur zwei Gruppen von Menschen vor Gott stehen - jene, die zu Gott sagen: »Dein Wille geschehe«, und jene, zu denen Gott sagt: »Dein Wille geschehe«. Alle, die in der Hölle sind, haben sie sich erwählt.“

„You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.“

„You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.“

„When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.“

„I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.“

„Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it.“

„There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."“

„I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.“

„God designed the human machine to run on Himself.“

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