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“[Mortals] say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Great Divorce

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

“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch God in the Dock

"Vivisection" (1947), p. 227
God in the Dock (1970)

“The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 186–187
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16: Farewell to Shadowlands
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven — a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all".”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your eyes also. Is love content with that? You do them, indeed, because they are His will, but not only because they are his will. Where can you taste the joy of obeying unless he bids you do something for which His bidding is the only reason?”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Perelandra

Perelandra (1943)

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Christentum schlechthin

Book III, Chapter 10, "Hope"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch God in the Dock

"Vivisection" (1947), p. 228
God in the Dock (1970)

“Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“The Spirit of the Age wishes to allow argument and not to allow argument. … If anyone argues with them they say that he is rationalizing his own desires, and therefore need not be answered. But if anyone listens to them they will then argue themselves to show that their own doctrines are true. … You must ask them whether any reasoning is valid or not. If they say no, then their own doctrines, being reached by reasoning, fall to the ground. If they say yes, then they will have to examine your arguments and refute them on their merits: for if some reasoning is valid, for all they know, your bit of reasoning may be one of the valid bits.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 63
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“He [the devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Christentum schlechthin

Book IV, chapter 6, "Two Notes"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”

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Clive Staples Lewis

Quelle: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, p. 90

“I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“Who believes in Aslan nowadays?”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

Prince Caspian (1951), Ch. 5.: Caspian's Adventure In The Mountains
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. “it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 137
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”

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Clive Staples Lewis buch Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…”

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Clive Staples Lewis

Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (July 1924), published in Letters (1966), p. 97