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“Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 176
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Screwtape Letters

Preface
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.”

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Clive Staples Lewis

Letters of C. S. Lewis (17 July 1953), para. 2, p. 251 — as reported in The Quotable Lewis (1989), p. 334

“God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Perelandra

Perelandra (1943)

“Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal…. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Screwtape Letters

Letter VIII
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“The human imagination has seldom had before it an object so sublimely ordered as the medieval cosmos. If it has an aesthetic fault, it is perhaps, for us who have known romanticism, a shade too ordered. For all its vast spaces it might in the end afflict us with a kind of claustrophobia. Is there nowhere any vagueness? No undiscovered by-ways? No twilight? Can we never really get out of doors?”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Discarded Image

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)

“The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Screwtape Letters

Letter XV
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Christentum schlechthin

Book I, Chapter 1, "The Law of Human Nature"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

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Clive Staples Lewis

Letters of C. S. Lewis (29 April 1959), para. 1, p. 285 — as reported in The Quotable Lewis (1989), p. 469

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Great Divorce

Quelle: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9

“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression."”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Screwtape Letters

Letter XXVI
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“The chief pleasure of his life in these days was to go down the road and look through the window in the wall in the hope of seeing the beautiful Island. … the sight of the Island and the sounds became very rare … and the yearning for the sight … became so terrible that John thought he would die if he did not have them again soon. … it came into his head that he might perhaps get the old feeling-for what, he thought, had the Island ever given him but a feeling?–by imagining. He shut his eyes and set his teeth again and made a picture of the Island in his mind.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 12–13
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts; as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.”

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Clive Staples Lewis

"Haggard Rides Again", in Time and Tide, Vol. XLI (3 September 1960)

“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Magician's Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“"Then those people are right who say that Heaven and Hell are only states of mind?"
"Hush," he said sternly. "Do not blaspheme. Hell is a state of mind — ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind — is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly."”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Great Divorce

Quelle: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9

“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Christentum schlechthin

Book III, Chapter 11, "Faith"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“A man, an adult, is precisely what [Aeneas] is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Chapter 6: "Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic"

“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”

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Clive Staples Lewis

The World's Last Night (1952)