Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“Aren't you ashamed of yourself?' 'No. Not as you mean. I do not look at myself. I have given up myself...”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! But I will give him the only gift he is still able to receive”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“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.”
“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“I feel a strong desire to tell you—and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me—which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.”
“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”
“Some are, no doubt. The sensualist, I’ll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. But the time comes on when, though the pleasure becomes less and less and the craving fiercer and fiercer, and though he knows that joy can never come that way, yet he prefers to joy the mere fondling of unappeasable lust and would not have it taken from him. He’d fight to the death to keep it. He’d like well to be able to scratch: but even when he can scratch no more he’d rather itch than not.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness. It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power—it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. If”
“Let him assume that the first ardours of his conversion might have been expected to last, and ought to have lasted, forever, and that his present dryness is an equally permanent condition. Having once got this misconception well fixed in his head, you may then proceed in various ways.”
“The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience.”
“the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. Does”
“If, on the other hand, he is aware that horrors may be in store for him and is praying for the virtues, wherewith to meet them, and meanwhile concerning himself with the Present because there, and there alone, all duty, all grace, all knowledge, and all pleasure dwell, his state is very undesirable and should be attacked at once.”
“We do not know the play. We do not even know whether we are in Act I or Act V. We do not know who are the major and who the minor characters. The Author knows.”
“Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Present Concerns
“You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Vary often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again." Mere Christianity.”
“the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else.”
“Cuando decimos: "Con la ayuda de Dios", queremos decir que Dios nos ponga dentro un trocito de Sí, por así decirlo. Él nos presta un poquito de Su capacidad para razonar, y de ese modo pensamos; nos presta un poquito de Su amor y así es como nos amamos los unos a los otros. Nosotros amamos y razonamos porque Dios ama y razona y nos sostiene la mano mientras lo hacemos.”
topics: amor , amor-al-prójimo , ayuda-de-dios , catolicismo , cristianismo , dios , espiritualidad , razonamiento , razón , teología
“The sheer quality of the Christians we met at Oxford shattered our stereotype, and thenceforward a reference in a book or conversation to someone’s being a Christian called up an entirely new image.”
“La cuestión de la fe surge después de que un hombre ha hecho lo posible por practicar las virtudes cristianas, y ha descubierto su fracaso, y ha visto que incluso si pudiera ponerlas en práctica sólo le estaría devolviendo a Dios lo que ya es de Dios. En otras palabras, descubre su insolvencia. Pues bien; una vez más, lo que a Dios le importa no son exactamente nuestras acciones. Lo que le importa es que seamos criaturas de una cierta calidad -la clase de criaturas que Él quiso que fuéramos—, criaturas relacionadas con Él de una cierta manera. No añado «y relacionadas entre ellas de una cierta manera», porque eso ya está incluido: si estáis a bien con Él inevitablemente estaréis a bien con todas las demás criaturas.”
topics: cristianismo , dios , espiritualidad , fe , fracaso , insolvencia , palabras , relaciones , teología , virtudes
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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.