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„Amióta csak keresztény lettem, mindig is úgy véltem, hogy a legjobb s talán az egyetlen szolgálat, amit nem hívő felebarátaimnak tehetek, ha megmagyarázom és megvédelmezem azt a hitet, amely mindenkor közös volt valamennyi keresztény számára.
Keresztény vagyok!”

C. S. Lewis

(Előszó); ford. Várhidi Gyula

„Éjszakáról éjszakára, valahányszor egy pillanatra is abbahagytam a munkát, mindig ezt a kitartó, kérlelhetetlen közeledését éreztem annak, akivel annyira komolyan kerültem a találkozást. Amitől a legjoban féltem, végül is bekövetkezett. 1929 tavaszán megadtam magam, s elismertem, hogy Isten: Isten, és letérdeltem és imádkoztam: azon az éjszakán talán én voltam a legelvetemültebb és legvonakodóbb megtérő bűnös egész Angliában. Akkor még nem láttam, ami most annyira egyértelmű és nyilvánvaló: az isteni alázatot, amely még ilyen feltételek mellett is befogadja a megtérőt. A tékozló fiú legalább a saját lábán ment haza. De ki imádhatja méltóképpen azt a szeretetet, amely kitárja a kapuját még annak a tékozlónak is, akit úgy cipelnek be, miközben rúgkapál, durcásan ellenkezik, s minden irányban a menekülés lehetőségét keresi?
Az öröm vonzásában.”

C. S. Lewis

„Az ember nemcsak él, hanem szeret és gondolkozik is; a biológiai élet benne éri el tetőfokát. De amivel az ember természetes állapotában nem rendelkezik, az a „szellemi” élet, az a magasabb rendű és másféle élet, amely Istenben van meg. Ugyanazt a szót - „élet” - használjuk míndkettőre; de ha azt gondolnánk, hogy ezért mindkettőnek ugyanolyannak kell lennie, akkor akár azt is gondolhatnánk, hogy a tér nagysága és Isten nagysága ugyanaz. Valójában oly nagy a különbség a biológiai élet és a szellemi élet között, hogy különböző néven fogom őket nevezni. A biológiait, amely a természet útján jut el hozzánk, s amely (mint minden a természetben) hajlamos az elfogyásra és a pusztulásra, úgyhogy csak a természettől levegő, víz, élelem, stb. alakjában vett állandó támogatással tartható fenn, „Biosznak” nevezem. A szellemi életet, amely Istenben van meg öröktől fogva, s amely az egész természetes világot alkotta, „Zoénak” hívom. A Biosz természetesen mutat bizonyos homályos vagy jelképes hasonlóságot a Zoéhoz, ez azonban csak olyan hasonlóság, mint ami egy fénykép és az általa ábrázolt hely, szobor vagy ember között van. Az az ember, aki a Biosz állapotából a Zoé állapotába kerül, oly nagy változáson menne át, mintha egy szobor faragott kőből valódi emberré válna. És pontosan ez a kereszténység lényege. A világ egy nagy szobrászműhely. Mi vagyunk a szobrok, és az a hír járja a műhelyben, hogy némelyek közülünk egy napon életre fognak kelni.”

C. S. Lewis

használjuk míndkettőre; de ha azt gondolnánk, hogy ezért mindkettőnek ugyanolyannak kell lennie, akkor akár azt is gondolhatnánk, hogy a tér nagysága és Isten nagysága ugyanaz. Valójában oly nagy a különbség a biológiai élet és a szellemi élet között, hogy különböző néven fogom őket nevezni. A biológiait, amely a természet útján jut el hozzánk, s amely (mint minden a természetben) hajlamos az elfogyásra és a pusztulásra, úgyhogy csak a természettől levegő, víz, élelem, stb. alakjában vett állandó támogatással tartható fenn, „Biosznak” nevezem. A szellemi életet, amely Istenben van meg öröktől fogva, s amely az egész természetes világot alkotta, „Zoénak” hívom. A Biosz természetesen mutat bizonyos homályos vagy jelképes hasonlóságot a Zoéhoz, ez azonban csak olyan hasonlóság, mint ami egy fénykép és az általa ábrázolt hely, szobor vagy ember között van. Az az ember, aki a Biosz állapotából a Zoé állapotába kerül, oly nagy változáson menne át, mintha egy szobor faragott kőből valódi emberré válna. És pontosan ez a kereszténység lényege. A világ egy nagy szobrászműhely. Mi vagyunk a szobrok, és az a hír járja a műhelyben, hogy némelyek közülünk egy napon életre fognak kelni.
Keresztény vagyok!; ford. Lukácsi Huba

„Keresztény vagyok!”

C. S. Lewis

(1. f.: Az emberi természet törvénye - a jó és a rossz); ford. Várhidi Gyula

C. S. Lewis: Idézetek angolul

“you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 59
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv Perelandra

Perelandra (1943)

“It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16: The Healing of Harms
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“Of course a war is entertaining. The immediate fear and suffering of the humans is a legitimate and pleasing refreshment for our myriads of toiling workers. But what permanent good does it do us unless we make use of it for bringing souls to Our Father Below? When I see the temporal suffering of humans who finally escape us, I feel as if I had been allowed to taste the first course of a rich banquet and then denied all the rest. It is worse than not to have tasted it at all. The Enemy, true to His barbarous methods of warfare, allows us to see the short misery of His favourites only to tantalize and torment us — to mock the incessant hunger, which, during this present phase of great conflict, His blockade is admittedly imposing.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Screwtape Letters

Letter V
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.”

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"On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 24

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”

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"Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare", Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939)

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.”

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The Weight of Glory (1949)

“I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is "nothing better" now to be had.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv Mere Christianity

Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.”

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Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (14 December 1950), quoted in Sleuthing C. S. Lewis (2001) by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, p. 393 http://books.google.com/books?id=8ZfLXXLZM9UC&pg=PA393&dq=%22I+believe+Buddhism+to+be+a+simplification+of+Hinduism+and+Islam+to+be+a+simplification+of+Xianity.%22

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Dedication: "To Lucy Barfield"
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”

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Foreword to Joy Davidman's Smoke on the Mountain (1954)

“… in such a matter he would never have been guided by his first thoughts (which would probably have been right) nor even by his twenty-first (which would have at least been explicable). Beyond doubt he would have prolonged deliberation till his hundred-and-first; and they would be infallibly and invincibly wrong. This is what always happens to the deliberations of a simple man who thinks he is a subtle one.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Screwtape Letters

Letter XII
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

“It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry “masculine” when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as “feminine.””

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv A Grief Observed

A Grief Observed (1961)

“Badness is only spoiled goodness.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv Mere Christianity

Book II, Chapter 2, "The Invasion"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

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Orual
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)

“And yet, it was not, not now, she that really counted. Or if she counted (and, oh, gloriously she did) it was for another’s sake. The earth and stars and sun, all that was or will be, existed for his sake. And he was coming. The most dreadful, the most beautiful, the only dread and beauty there is, was coming. The pillars on the far side of the pool flushed with his approach. I cast down my eyes.”

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Orual
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)

“Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.”

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"The Seeing Eye", in Christian Reflections (1967), p. 167

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv God in the Dock

"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" (1949), p. 292
Similar statements were included in "A Reply to Professor Haldane" (1946) (see above), published posthumously.
God in the Dock (1970)

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“The miracles in fact are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. Of that larger script part is already visible, part is still unsolved. In other words, some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do. In that sense, and from our human point of view, some are reminders and others prophecies.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv God in the Dock

"Miracles" (1942), p. 29
God in the Dock (1970)

“They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv That Hideous Strength

Forrás: That Hideous Strength (1945), Ch. 13 : They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads

“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.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Pilgrim's Regress

Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?
Pilgrim’s Regress 186–187
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“But what of the poor Ghosts who never get into the omnibus at all?”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Great Divorce

'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:
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
The Great Divorce (1944–1945)

“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv A Grief Observed

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.'
A Grief Observed (1961)

“Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: "We give thanks to thee for thy great glory."”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv The Four Loves

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection — if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
The Four Loves (1960)

“Are the gods not just?”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv Till We Have Faces

'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'"
Orual & The Fox
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)

“Everything is a subject on which there is not much to be said.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv Studies in Words

Studies in Words (1960), ch. 2

“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.”

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Clive Staples Lewis könyv A Grief Observed

There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
A Grief Observed (1961)