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In this classic trial of faith, C. S. Lewis probes the fundamental issues of life and death, and summons those who grieve to honest mourning and hope in the midst of loss. This book was first published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk.
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In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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“I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid”
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear”
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“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All non-sense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask--half our great theological and metaphysical problems--are like that.”
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn’t. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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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 submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
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for the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Authors & Contributors edit
- C. S. Lewis (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1961
ISBN: 0553274864
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1961
ISBN: 0553274864
Page Count: 160
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- Dewey: 242.4
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- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Worship & Devotion › Devotionals
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Lewis, C. S.
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Spirituality › Devotionals
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Death & Grief › Grief & Bereavement
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