Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“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
“تفسّر مخاطر الكفاية الذاتي الواضحة السبب الذي لأجله ينظر ربنا إلى رذائل الضعفاء و الفجار الفاسقين بتساهل أكثر بكثير من الرذائل التي تقود إلى النجاح العالمي. هذا لأن الفاجرات لسن في خطر أن يجدن حياتهن الحالية مُرضية للغاية بحيث لا يتمكنَّ من العودة إلى الله؛ أما المتكبر، و الجشع، و صاحب البر الذاتي، فهم في ذلك الخطر”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“The most precious gift that marriage gave me was this constant impact of something very close and intimate yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant—in a word, real.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“الشيء الذي لا نستطيع أن نعرف أننا نختاره، لا يمكننا إختياره”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“In his own subject every man knows that all discoveries are made and all errors corrected by those who ignore the ‘climate of opinion’.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“They tell me H. is happy now, they tell me she is at peace. What makes them so sure of this? I don't mean that I fear the worst of all. (...) But why are they so sure that all anguish ends with death? (...) How do they know she is 'at rest'? Why should the separation (if nothing else) which so agonizes the lover who is left behind be painless to the lover who departs?”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Jogadores de bridge dizem-me que deve haver um pouco de dinheiro no jogo "ou, então, as pessoas não vão levá-lo a sério". Aparentemente é assim. Sua aposta no jogo - Deus ou nenhum Deus, um bom Deus ou o Sádico Cósmico, a vida eterna ou a não-entidade - não será séria se nela nada de valor estiver em risco. E você nunca perceberá como ela era séria, enquanto as apostas não estiverem muitíssimo altas, enquanto você não descobrir que está jogando não pelas fichas, nem pelos seis centavos, mas por todo centavo que tem no mundo.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“ربما لا يكون هذا هو "أفضل العوالم الممكنة"، و لكنه العالم الوحيد الممكن (من وجهة نظر الله). العوالم الممكنة يمكن أن تعني فقط "العوالم التي كان يمكن لله أن يصنعها، و لكنه لم يفعل". لكن فكرة أن الله "كان يمكن أن يصنع" تتضمن مفهوماً شديد البشرية لحرية الله. فأياً كان ما تعنيه الحرية البشرية، لا يمكن للحرية الإلهية أن تعني تعيين بدائل و إختيار واحد منها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body? And if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for in the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death unendurably as before it. Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“إذا كان الله كلي العلم و المعرفة فلابد أنه كان يعرف ما سوف يفعله إبراهيم، بدون أي إمتحان، فلماذا إذاً هذا العذاب دون داع؟ ... لكن مهما كان ما عرفه الله، فإن إبراهيم على أية حال لم يكن يعلم أن طاعته كان يمكنها إحتمال مثل هذا الأمر إلى أن علّمه هذا الحدث ذلك، و الطاعة التي لم يكن يعلم أنه سيختارها، لم يكن يستطيع أن يقول أنه سيختارها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“What reason have we, except our desperate wishes, to believe that God is, by any standard we can conceive, 'good'? Doesn't all the prima facie evidence suggest exactly the opposite? What have we to set against it? We set Christ against it. But how if He were mistaken? Almost His last words may have a perfectly clear meaning. He had found that the Being He called Father was horribly and infinitely different from what He had supposed. The trap, so long and carefully prepared and so subtly baited, was at last sprung, on the cross. The vile practical joke had succeeded.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Yet again, if the fixed nature of matter prevents it from being always, and in all its dispositions, equally agreeable even to a single soul, much less is it possible for the matter of the universe at any moment to be distributed so that it is equally convenient and pleasurable to each member of a society. If a man traveling in one direction is having a journey down hill, a man going in the opposite direction must be going up hill. If even a pebble lies where I want it to lie, it cannot, except by a coincidence, be where you want it to lie. And this is very far from being an evil: on the contrary, it furnishes occasion for all those acts of courtesy, respect, and unselfishness by which love and good humor and modesty express themselves. But it certainly leaves the way open to a great evil, that of competition and hostility.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry ‘masculine’ when we see them in a woman;”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“فالصلاح التام" الكامل لا يمكن أن يجادل بشأن النتيجة التي يجب الوصول إليها، و "الحكمة الكاملة" لا يمكن أن تجادل بشأن أفضل الوسائل المناسبة لتحقيقها. تتمثل حرية الله في حقيقة أنه لا يوجد سبب آخر غير الله نفسه يُنتج أفعاله و لا توجد عقبة خارجية تعوقها – و أن صلاحه الشخصي هو الجذر الذي منه تنمو جميع أفعاله، و قدرته الكلية الشخصية هي المناخ الذي تًزهر و تنمو فيه جميع هذه الأعمال”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body? And if so, why? If God’s goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for in the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death as unendurably as before it.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“الإرادة البشرية تصبح خلاقة حقاً و تصبح ملكاً لنا بالفعل عندما تكون بالكامل ملكاً لله، و هذا واحد من المعاني الكثيرة التي يكون بها الإنسان الذي يضيّع نفسه يجدها. هذا الفعل العظيم تتم المبادرة به لأجلنا، و يُصنع نيابة عنا، كمثال نحتذي به، و يتم نقله بصورة لا تُصدق إلى جميع المؤمنين، بواسطة المسيح على الجلجثة. هنــــاك تصل درجة الموت المقبول إلى أقصى حدود لما يمكن تخيله و ربما تتخطاها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“What chokes every prayer and every hope is the memory of all the prayers H. and I offered and all the false hopes we had. Not hopes raised merely by our own wishful thinking, hopes encouraged, even forced upon us, by false diagnoses, by X-ray photographs, by strange remissions, by one temporary recovery that might have ranked as a miracle. Step by step we were 'led up the garden path'. Time after time, when He seemed most gracious He was really preparing the next torture.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
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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.