Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“الطبيعة الثابتة الدائمة للخشب التي تمكننا من أن نستخدمه كعارضة، تمكننا أيضاً من أن نستخدمه كعصا لضرب جارنا على رأسه. و هكذا فإن الطبيعة الثابتة للمادة تعني عامةً أنه عندما يتشاجر البشر، فإن الفوز يكون عادةً من نصيب أولئك الذين لديهم أسلحة و مهارة و أعداد أفضل، حتى لو كانت قضيتهم جائرة و غير عادلة”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“una vez que superan con éxito esta aridez inicial, los humanos se hacen menos dependientes de las emociones y, en consecuencia, resulta mucho más difícil tentarles. Cuanto”
“Much that was unjust and still more that was simply unintelligible seemed to be accepted, not only without resentment, but with a certain satisfaction provided only that it was striking. Even about his present situation he showed very much less curiosity than Mark would have thought possible. It did not make sense, but then the man did not expect things to make sense. He deplored the absence of tobacco and regarded the “Foreigners” as very dangerous people; but the main thing, obviously, was to eat and drink as much as possible while the present conditions lasted.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“And that’s why, gentlemen, if your little girl doesn’t come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in the way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“The contemplation of what we take to be real is always, I think, in tolerably sensitive minds, attended with a certain sort of aesthetic satisfaction--a sort which depends precisely on its supposed reality. There is a dignity and poignancy in the bare fact that a thing exists.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Weight of Glory
“اگر زنده باشی شاید بخت با تو یاری کند، اما همه ی مردگان مانند هم هستند”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Si pedimos algo que vaya más allá de la simplicidad, es una necedad quejarse de que ese algo más no sea sencillo. Muy”
“Puritanism”—and may I remark in passing that the value we have given to that word is one of the really solid triumphs of the last hundred years?”
“You have done what was required of you," said the Director. "You have obeyed and waited. It will often happen like that. As one of the modern authors has told us, the altar must often be built in one place in order that the fire from heaven may descend somewhere else. But don't jump to conclusions. You may have plenty of work to do before a month is passed...”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“for a boy goes to a Public School precisely to be made a normal, sensible boy—a good mixer—to be taken out of himself; and eccentricity is severely penalized.”
“I suppose that everyone who has thought about the matter will see what M. de Rougemont meant. Every human love, at its height, has a tendency to claim for itself a divine authority. Its voice tends to sound as if it were the will of God Himself. It tells us not to count the cost, it demands of us a total commitment, it attempts to over-ride all other claims and insinuates that any action which is sincerely done ‘for love’s sake’ is thereby lawful and even meritorious. That erotic love and love of one’s country may thus attempt to ‘become gods’ is generally recognised.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Four Loves
“For the rest, all that rises out of the sea of arithmetic is a jungle of dates, battles, exports, imports and the like, forgotten as soon as learned and perfectly useless had they been remembered.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
“What pitiable cant to say, 'She will live forever in my memory!' Live? That is exactly what she won't do. You might as well think like the old Egyptians that you can keep the dead by embalming them. Will nothing persuade us that they are gone? What's left? A corpse, a memory, and (in some versions) a ghost. All mockeries or horrors. Three more ways of spelling the word dead. It was H. I loved. As if I wanted to fall in love with my memory of her, an image of my own mind! It would be a sort of incest.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Consequently, when Christ becomes man it is not really as if you could become one particular tin soldier. It is as if something which is always affecting the whole human mass begins, at one point, to affect the whole human mass in a new way. From that point the effect spreads through all mankind. It makes a difference to people who lived before Christ as well as to people who lived after Him. It makes a difference to people who have never heard of Him. It is like dropping into a glass of water one drop of something which gives a new taste or a new colour to the whole lot. But, of course, none of these illustrations really works perfectly. In the long run God is no one but Himself and what He does is like nothing else. You could hardly expect it to be otherwise.”
“Pam, Pam—no natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God’s hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“No, no hay salida. No hay cielo que contenga un poco de infierno. No hay plan que mantenga esto o aquello del demonio en nuestros corazones o en nuestros bolsillos. Nuestro Satán debe marcharse, completamente.” GEORGE MACDONALD”
― 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.