Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you about the object: it only tells you about the speakers attitude to that object.”
“La tarea del educador moderno no es podar las selvas, sino regar los desiertos.”
“All times may be soon to Aslan; but in my home all hungry times are one o'clock.”
“If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes...it cuts its own throat.”
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.”
“¿Cómo podía ser al mismo tiempo el Dios que todo lo sabía y el hombre que preguntaba a sus discípulos «¿Quién me ha tocado»? Yo sugiero que en realidad, y es una verdad intemporal acerca de Dios, la naturaleza humana, y la experiencia humana de la debilidad o el sueño o la ignorancia, quedó de algún modo incluida en la totalidad de Su vida divina. Esta vida humana de Dios es, desde nuestro punto de vista, un período particular en la historia de nuestro mundo (desde el año 1. DC hasta la Crucifixión) Por lo tanto, imaginamos que es también un período en la historia de la propia existencia de Dios. Pero Dios no tiene historia. Es demasiado definitivamente y totalmente real para tenerla. Puesto que, naturalmente, tener una historia significa perder parte de tu realidad (porque ésta ya se ha deslizado en el pasado) y no tener todavía otra parte (porque aún sigue en el futuro), de hecho, no tienes más que el mínimo presente, que ha desaparecido antes de que puedas hablar de él.”
topics: cristianismo , dios , eternidad , existencia , física , historia , jesucristo , realidad , teología , tiempo
“The tortures occur, if they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't.”
“Courage, friends,' came Prince Rilian's voice. 'Whether we live or die Aslan will be our good lord.”
“Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.”
“The "Appeal to Love" was an essential part of the very structure of the Shining Barrier. What it meant was simply this question: what will be best for our love? Should one of us change a pattern of behavior that bothered the other, or should the other learn to accept? Well, which would be better for our love? Which way would be better, in any choice or decision, in the light of our single goal: to be in love as long as life might last?”
“And the lesson of it all is, your Highness,” said the oldest Dwarf, “that those Northern Witches always mean the same thing, but in every age they have a different plan for getting it.”
“She was nearly fainting: indeed, she wished she could really faint, but faints don't come for the asking.”
“And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt. And great mugs of frothy chocolate, and roast potatoes and roast chestnuts, and baked apples with raisins stuck in where the cores had been, and then ices just to freshen you up after all the hot things.”
topics: food-love
“there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head’s friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn’t much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.”
“We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked—a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or the child.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Present Concerns
“There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-grown beech whose branches swayed gently above his head. They stood on cool, green grass, sprinkled with daisies and buttercups. A little way off, along the river bank, willows were growing. On the other side tangles of flowering currant, lilac, wild rose, and rhododendron closed them in.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he's had his leg off it is quite another. After that operation either the wounded stump heals or the man dies. If it heals, the fierce, continuous pain will stop. Presently he'll get back his strength and be able to stump about on his wooden leg. He has 'got over it.' But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones; and he will always be a one-legged man. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed, will all be different. His whole way of life will be changed. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off. Duties too. At present I am learning to get about on crutches. Perhaps I shall presently be given a wooden leg. But I shall never be a biped again.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Sleep." he said. "Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.