Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“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.”
“Valoarea reală, în ce ne priveşte, a oricărei revoluţii, conflagraţii sau perioade de foamete stă în spaima, înşelăciunea, ura, furia şi disperarea individuală pe care ele le pot produce. (...) Dar e mult mai valoros ca scop în sine, anume ca stare de spirit care va duce în mod necesar la excluderea simplităţii, a dragostei pentru semeni, a împăcării şi a tuturor mulţumirilor date de recunoştinţă şi admiraţie, şi astfel va îndepărta fiinţa umană de orice cale care i-ar putea conduce paşii către Rai.”
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“El odio es a menudo la compensación mediante la que un hombre asustado se resarce de los sufrimientos del miedo. Cuanto más miedo tenga, más odiará. Y el odio es también un antídoto de la vergüenza. Por tanto, para hacer una herida profunda en su caridad, primero debes vencer su valor.”
topics: caridad , comunismo , demonios , espiritualidad , miedo , odio , sufrimientos , valor , vergüenza
“Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately, it is quite invisible to these humans.”
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it, therefore, they must experience many different things; in other words, they must experience change. And since they need change, the Enemy (being a hedonist at heart) has made change pleasurable to them, just as He has made eating pleasurable. But since He does not wish them to make change, any more than eating, an end in itself, He has balanced the love of change in them by a love of permanence. He has contrived to gratify both tastes together on the very world He has made, by that union of change and permanence which we call rhythm. He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme. He gives them in His Church a spiritual ear; they change from a fast to a feast, but it is the same feast as before.”
“En la dimensión de Dios, por así decirlo, encontramos un ser que es tres Personas!' mientras sigue siendo un Ser, del mismo modo que un cubo é» seis cuadrados mientras sigue siendo un cubo. Por supuesto, nosotros no podemos concebir del todo a un Ser así, del mismo modo que, si estuviéramos hechos de manera tal que sólo percibiéramos dos dimensiones en el espacio nunca podríamos imaginar adecuadamente un cubo. Pero podemos tener una ligera noción del mismo. Y cuando lo hacemos tenemos, por primera vez en la vida, una idea positiva, por ligera que sea, de algo superpersonal, de algo que es más que una persona.”
topics: ciencia , cristianismo , dimensión , dios , espiritualidad , geometría , hipercubo , santísima-trinidad , teseracto , trinidad
“A razão para a diferença é simples demais. Você nunca tem consciência do quanto de fato acredita em alguma coisa enquanto a verdade ou a falsidade dessa coisa não se torna uma questão de vida ou morte para você. É fácil dizer que você acredita que uma corda seja fora e segura, enquanto a está usando apenas para amarrar uma caixa; mas imagine que deva dependurar-se nessa corda sobre um precipício. Será que não iria primeiro descobrir o quanto na verdade confia nela?”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“There's a limit to the 'one flesh'. You can't really share someone else's weakness, or fear or pain. (...) The mind can sympathise; the body, less.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“ربما يمكننا أن نتخيل عالماً يقوم فيه الله كل لحظة بتصحيح نتائج إساءة إستخدام مخلوقاته لإرادته الحرة: بحيث تصبح العارضة الخشبية لينة مثل العشب عندما يتم إستخدامها كسلاح، و يرفض الهواء طاعتي إذا حاولت أن أبث فيه الموجات الصوتية التي تحمل الأكاذيب و الشتائم. لكن مثل هذا العالم سيكون عالماً تصبح فيه الأفعال الخاطئة مستحيلة، و بالتالي تكون حرية الإرادة فيه باطلة و عقيمة”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“يشق على نفس الله كثيراً أن يكون علينا أن نختاره كبديل للجحيم؛ و رغم ذلك فإنه يقبل حتى هذا الإختيار”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Si pedimos algo que vaya más allá de la simplicidad, es una necedad quejarse de que ese algo más no sea sencillo. Muy”
“Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? Did you not know they were stronger than their opposites?”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“The approval of one’s own conscience is a very heady draft; and specially for those who are not accustomed to it.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“She was so small that, forward of the mast, there was hardly any deck room between the central hatch and the ship’s boat on one side and the hen-coop (Lucy fed the hens) on the other. But she was a beauty of her kind, a “lady” as sailors say, her lines perfect, her colors pure, and every spar and rope and pin lovingly made. Eustace of course would be pleased with nothing, and kept on boasting about liners and motorboats and aeroplanes and submarines (“As if knew anything about them,” muttered Edmund).”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“It is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“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 ,
“ The first day for ages when I have been able to write. We had been driven before a hurricane for thirteen days and nights. I know that because I kept a careful count, though the others all say it was only twelve. to be embarked on a dangerous voyage with people who can’t even count right!”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“We shall have no /need/ for one another now: we can begin to love truly.”
― 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.