Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“¿Por qué, entonces, nos ha dado Dios el libre albedrío? Porque el libre albedrío, aunque haga posible el mal, es también lo único que hace que el amor, la bondad o la alegría merezcan la pena tenerse. Un mundo de autómatas —de criaturas que funcionasen como máquinas— apenas merecería ser creado. La felicidad que Dios concibe para Sus criaturas más evolucionadas es la felicidad de estar libre y voluntariamente unidas a Él.”
topics: alegría , amor , bondad , cristianismo , dios , felicidad , libertad , libre-albedrío , sentido-de-la-vida , voluntad
“a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.”
“he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.”
“Supposing science ever became complete so that it knew every single thing in the whole universe. Is it not plain that the questions, ‘Why is there a universe?’ ‘Why does it go on as it does?’ ‘Has it any meaning?’ would remain just as they were?”
“You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them?”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
“حاول أن تستبعد إمكانية الألم المتضمن في نظام الطبيعة و وجود الإرادات الحرة، و ستجد أنك تستبعد الحياة نفسها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“الناس الذين لا يعنينا شيء من أمرهم هم الذين نطلب لهم السعادة بأية شروط، أما أصدقائنا، و أحبائنا، و أبنائنا، فإننا نكون صارمين، و نفضّل حتى أن نراهم يتألمون كثيراً عن أن يكونوا سعداء بطريقة حقيرة و جافية”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they cannot help? -Psyche”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: till-we-have-faces
“But the most part seemed to think that the mere fact of having contrived for themselves so much misery gave them a kind of superiority. ‘You have led a sheltered life!’ they bawled. ‘You don’t know the seamy side. We’ll tell you. We’ll give you some hard facts’—as if to tinge Heaven with infernal images and colours had been the only purpose for which they came. All alike, so far as I could judge from my own exploration of the lower world, were wholly unreliable, and all equally incurious about the country in which they had arrived. They repelled every attempt to teach them, and when they found that nobody listened to them they went back, one by one, to the bus. This curious wish to describe Hell turned out, however, to be only the mildest form of a desire very common among the Ghosts—the desire to extend Hell, to bring it bodily, if they could, into Heaven.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“قال توما الإكويني عن الألم، مثلما قال أرسطو قبله عن الشعور بالخزي، أنه ليس شيئاً جيداً في حد ذاته، بل شيئاً قد يكون له خير معين في ظروف معينة. هذا يعني أنه إذا كان الشر موجوداً، فإن الألم في إدراكه للشر، حيث أن هذا نوع من المعرفة، هو خير نسبياً؛ لأن البديل هو أن تكون النفس جاهلة بالشر، أو جاهلة بأن الشر مناقض لطبيعتها، و كما يقول الفيلسوف، "أي منهما سيء بشكل واضح". و أنا أعتقد، أننا رغم أننا نقشعر من ذلك، إلا أننا نتفق معه.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: spiritual
“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
“When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If”
“Entrar al cielo es volverse más humano que lo que jamás lograra serlo en la tierra; entrar al infierno, es ser desterrado de la humanidad. Aquello que es lanzado (o se lanza) al infierno, no es un hombre: son sus “restos”.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: spiritual
“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
“el cristianismo asegura que Dios es bueno; que hizo todas las cosas y las hizo para el bien de ellas; que una de las cosas buenas que hizo, específicamente el libre albedrío de las creaturas racionales, por su misma naturaleza incluye la posibilidad del mal; y que las creaturas, valiéndose de esta posibilidad, se han vuelto malas.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“There was a time in childhood when I didn't yet know I was ugly. Then there was a time when I believed as girls do— and as Batta was always telling me— that I could make it more tolerable by this or that done to my clothes or my hair. Now, I chose to be veiled.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
“Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.”
― 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.