Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“This lasted longer than I could describe even if I wrote pages and pages about it.”
“Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Four Loves
“Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down onto the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky between the tree tops.”
“De todos los argumentos contra el amor, ninguno atrae tanto a mi naturaleza como «¡ Cuidado!, eso te puede hacer sufrir». A mi naturaleza, a mi temperamento, sí; pero no a mi conciencia. Cuando me dejo llevar por esa atracción me doy cuenta de que estoy a mil millas de Cristo.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it till they killed themselves.”
“A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Four Loves
“Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time "Are they?”
topics: magic
“En la amistad —en ese mundo luminoso, tranquilo, racional de las relaciones libremente elegidas— uno se aleja del sistema nervioso y lo animal. De entre todos los amores, ese es el único que parece elevarnos al nivel de los dioses y de los ángeles.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Four Loves
topics: amistad , amor , amor-verdadero , cristianismo , instinto , libertad , materialismo , razón , relaciones-interpersonales , ángeles
“La amistad debe estar llena de admiración mutua, de amor de apreciación. Necesario será recordarla: sentiremos que somos nosotros mismos —nosotros cuatro o cinco— quienes nos hemos elegido unos a otros; al percibir cada uno la belleza interior de los demás, todos iguales, y formando así una nobleza voluntaria, creeremos que nosotros mismos nos hemos elevado por encima del resto de la humanidad gracias a nuestros propios poderes.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Four Loves
topics: amistad , amor , amor-verdadero , belleza , casualidad , cristianismo , elección , recuerdos , relaciones-interpersonales , voluntad
“She wants to live simply and thinks luxuries little more than social display.”
“There was a jug of creamy milk for the children (Mr Beaver stuck to beer) and a great lump of deep yellow butter in the middle of the table from which everyone took as much as he wanted to go with his potatoes, and all the children thought- and I agree with them- that there's nothing to beat good freshwater fish if you eat it when it has been alive half an hour ago and has come out of the pan half a minute ago. And when they had finished the fish Mrs. Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot, and at the same time moved the kettle onto the fire, so that when they had finished the marmalade roll the tea was made and ready to be poured out.”
“a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.”
“Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well.”
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. —from Mere Christianity”
“Por eso precisamente se les dice a los cristianos que no juzguen. Sólo vemos los resultados que las elecciones de un hombre extraen de su material en bruto. Pero Dios no juzga en absoluto a ese hombre por su material en bruto, sino por lo que ha hecho con él. La mayor parte de la estructura psicológica de un hombre se debe probablemente a su cuerpo: cuando su cuerpo muera todo eso se desprenderá de él, y el hombre central auténtico, aquello que eligió, el mejor o el peor partido que sacó de ese material, se quedará desnudo. Toda clase de cosas buenas que creíamos eran nuestras, pero que en realidad se debían a una buena digestión, se desprenderán de nosotros, y toda clase de cosas malas que se debían a los complejos o a la mala salud de los demás se desprenderán de ellos. Y entonces, por primerísima vez, veremos a todos tal como son.”
topics: cristianismo , dios , juicio , juzgar , moralidad , muerte , psicoanálisis , psicología , sentimientos
“Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him.”
“When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.”
“I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
topics: hell
“But surely in the case of distinguished people, you’d hear?’ ‘But they aren’t distinguished—no more than anyone else. Don’t you understand? The Glory flows into everyone, and [76] back from everyone: like light and mirrors. But the light’s the thing.’ ‘Do you mean there are no famous men?’ ‘They are all famous. They are all known, remembered, recognised by the only Mind that can give a perfect judgement.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
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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.