Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis

“La urma urmei, sunt două feluri de oameni: unii care îi spun lui Dumnezeu: "Facă-se voia Ta" si alții cărora Dumnezeu le spune: "Facă-se voia ta”

“No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal—ashamed of being a mortal.’ ‘But how could you help that?’ ‘Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they can’t help?”

“when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.”

“It’s strange to think how Bardia went to and fro daily between Queen and wife, well assured he did his duty by both (as he did) and without a thought, doubtless, of the pother he made between them. This is what it is to be a man. The one sin the gods never forgive us is that of being born women.”

“There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”

“You have done what was required of you,' said the Director. 'You have obeyed and waited.”

“It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.”

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“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The”

“In our age I think it would be fair to say that the ease with which a scientific theory assumes the dignity and rigidity of fact varies inversely with the individual's scientific education. In discussion with wholly uneducated audiences I have sometimes found matter which real scientists would regard as highly speculative more firmly believed than many things within our real knowledge; the popular imago of the Cave Man ranked as hard fact, and the life of Caesar or Napoleon as doubtful rumor. ... The mass media which have in our time created a popular scientism, a caricature of the true sciences, did not then exist [in the middle ages]. The ignorant were more aware of their ignorance then than now.”

“Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat, Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. The first three constitute the Trivium or threefold way; the last four, the Quadrivium.”

“A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not to be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge”

“La gente a menudo piensa en la moral cristiana como una especie de trato en el que Dios dice: «Si guardáis una serie de reglas os recompensaré, y si no las guardáis haré lo contrario.» Yo no creo que ésta sea la mejor manera de considerarla. Preferiría con mucho decir que cada vez que hacéis una elección estáis transformando el núcleo central de lo que sois en algo ligeramente diferente de lo que erais antes. Y considerando vuestra vida como un todo, con todas sus innumerables elecciones, a lo largo de toda ella estáis transformando este núcleo central en una criatura celestial o en una criatura infernal.”

“AN EXPLANATION OF TIME: “Son,” he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity . . . . But ye can get some likeness of it if ye say that both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective. Not only this valley but all their earthly past will have been Heaven to those who are saved. Not only the twilight in that town, but all their life on Earth too, will then be seen by the damned to have been Hell. That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say ‘Let me have but this and I’ll take the consequences’: little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man’s past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man’s past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why, at the end of all things, when the sun rises here and the twilight turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say ‘We have never lived anywhere except”

“First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”

“Nunca olvides que cuando estamos tratando cualquier placer en su forma sana, normal y satisfactoria, estamos, en cierto sentido, en el terreno del Enemigo. Por eso tratemos siempre de alejarnos de la condición natural de un placer hacia lo que en él es menos natural, lo que menos huele a su Hacedor, y lo menos placentero. La fórmula es un ansia siempre creciente de un placer siempre decreciente. Es más seguro, y es de mejor estilo. Conseguir el alma del hombre y no darle nada a cambio: eso es lo que realmente alegra el corazón de Nuestro Padre.”

“But whatever the nature of the composite object, you must keep him praying to it—to the thing that he has made, not to the Person who has made him.”

“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.”

“El problema de adaptar el tiempo particular a las oraciones particulares es meramente la aparición, en dos puntos de su forma de percepción temporal, del problema total de adaptar el universo espiritual entero al universo corporal entero; que la creación en su totalidad actúa en todos los puntos del espacio y del tiempo, o mejor, que su especie de conciencia les obliga a enfrentarse con el acto creador completo y coherente como una serie de acontecimientos sucesivos. Por qué ese acto creador deja sitio a su libre voluntad es el problema de los problemas, el secreto oculto tras las tonterías del Enemigo acerca del “Amor”. Cómo lo hace no supone problema alguno, porque el Enemigo no prevé a los humanos haciendo sus libres aportaciones en el futuro, sino que los ve haciéndolo en su Ahora ilimitado. Y, evidentemente, contemplar a un hombre haciendo algo no es obligarle a hacerlo.”

“Una vez que consigas hacerle pensar que “la religión está muy bien, pero hasta cierto punto”, podrás sentirte satisfecho acerca de su alma. Una religión moderada es tan buena para nosotros como la falta absoluta de religión —y más divertida. Otra”