Quotes by C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a de — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen sub — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly p — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
The death of a beloved is an amputation. — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus e — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her abs — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And what — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen sub — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him. — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed