Clive Staples Lewis: Citáty v angličtine (page 14)

“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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha That Hideous Strength

Zdroj: 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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)

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

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Clive Staples Lewis kniha A Grief Observed

First line.
A Grief Observed (1961)

“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”

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Clive Staples Lewis kniha Reflections on the Psalms

Reflections on the Psalms (1958), ch. III: Cursings