Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“Каквото и да правиш, в душата на пациента ти ще се намери място както за милосърдие, така и за злоба. Най-важното е да насочваш злобата към непосредствено заобикалящите го, към хората, които той среща всеки ден, а да запратиш милосърдието далеч към периферията, към хора, които не познава. Така злобата става съвсем истинска, а добротата – въображаема.”
“Mantén su pensamiento lejos de las obligaciones más elementales, dirigiéndolo hacia las más elevadas y espirituales; sin descubrir ninguno de aquellos rasgos suyos que son evidentes para cualquiera. Que cada uno de ellos tenga algo así como un doble patrón de conducta. Tu paciente debe exigir que todo cuanto dice se tome en sentido literal, y que se juzgue simplemente por las palabras exactas, al mismo tiempo que juzga cuanto dice su madre tras la más minuciosa e hipersensible interpretación del tono, del contexto y de la intención que él sospecha. Y a ella hay que animarla a que haga lo mismo con él. De este modo, ambos pueden salir convencidos, o casi, después de cada discusión, de que son totalmente inocentes. Ya sabes como son estas cosas: “Lo único que hago es preguntarle a qué hora estará lista la cena, y se pone hecha una fiera”. Tendrás la deliciosa situación de un ser humano que dice ciertas cosas con el expreso propósito de ofender y, sin embargo, se queja de que se ofendan.”
topics: comunicación , conducta , demonios , espiritualidad , familia , ofensas , palabras , relaciones , resentimiento
“en los ataques contra la paciencia, la castidad y la fortaleza, lo divertido es hacer que el hombre se rinda justo cuando (si lo hubiese sabido) el alivio estaba casi a la vista.”
“Well, it is the law, my lord,’ replied Mr Blundell, ‘and it’s not my place to argue about it.”
“you were speaking just now with a good deal of feeling about Treble Bob—you are not, yourself, by any chance, a ringer?” “Well,” said Wimsey, “I used at one time to pull quite a pretty rope. But whether, at this time of day——”
“The Christians describe the Enemy as one “without whom Nothing is strong”. And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.”
“There were birds singing close to a window; there was real sunlight falling on a panel. That panel needed repainting; but I could have gone down on my knees and kissed its very shabbiness - the precious real, solid thing it was.”
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from Shoddy Lands
“Bells, it may be noted, like ships and kittens, have a way of being female, whatever names they are given.”
“People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.’ I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To”
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. —from Mere Christianity”
“For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us.”
“Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. The”
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“You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out those bits and leave the rest.”
“And O, my poor Despoina, do you think he ever hears The wail of hearts he has broken, the sound of human ill? He cares not for our virtues, our little hopes and fears, And how could it all go on, love, if he knew of laughter and tears? Ah, sweet, if a man could cheat him! If you could flee away Into some other country beyond the rosy West, To hide in the deep forests and be for ever at rest From the rankling hate of God and the outworn world's decay!”
“In popular usage Grammatica or Grammaria slid into the vague sense of learning in general; and since learning is usually an object both of respect and suspicion to the masses, grammar, in the form grammary comes to mean magic. Thus in the ballad of King Estmere, ‘My mother was a western woman learned in grammarye’. And from grammary, by a familiar sound-change, comes glamour—a word whose associations with grammar and even with magic have now been annihilated by the beauty-specialists.”
“Lo mejor para corregir el gusto de una persona no es denigrar a sus autores favoritos, sino enseñarle a disfrutar con otros mejores.”
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“I think if you look at the present state of the world, it is pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We are on the wrong road. And if that is so, we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”
“I find I must borrow yet another parable from George MacDonald. Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
“No perdáis el tiempo preguntándoos si «amáis» a vuestro prójimo: comportaos como si fuera así. En cuanto hacemos esto, descubrimos uno de los grandes secretos. Cuando nos comportamos como si amásemos a alguien, al cabo del tiempo llegaremos a amarlo.”
“una de las razones por las que no se necesita una educación especial para ser cristiano es que el cristianismo es una educación en sí mismo. Esa”
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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.