Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“It is wise to face the possibility that the whole human race (being a small thing in the universe) is, in fact, just such a local pocket of evil—an isolated bad school or regiment inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection.”
“We must try not to be vain, but we must never call in our Pride to cure our vanity.”
“We had better not assume that the vicarious delights, in any of these kinds, are always substitutes for actual delights. It is not only the plain and unloved women who read the love stories; all who read success stories are not themselves failures”
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“Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.”
“I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have.”
“Quintilian suggests literatura as the proper translation of Greek grammatike (II, i), and literatura, though it does not mean ‘literature’, included a good deal more than literacy. It included all that is required for ‘making up’ a ‘set book’: syntax, etymology, prosody, and the explanation of allusions. Isidore makes even history a department of Grammar (I, xli–xliv). He would have described the book I am now writing as a book of Grammar. Scholarship is perhaps our nearest equivalent.”
“But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, "I'm not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own." Then she goes up one night and finds the Teddy bear and the ink and the French Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will has made it possible. - Book 2, Chapter 3”
“burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“a menos que les enseñéis a vuestros estados de ánimo «a ponerse en su lugar» nunca podréis ser cristianos cabales, o ni siquiera ateos cabales, sino criaturas que oscilan de un lado a otro, y cuyas creencias realmente dependen del tiempo o del estado de vuestra digestión. En consecuencia es necesario fortalecer el hábito de la fe. El”
“Tenéis que escoger. O ese hombre era, y es, el Hijo de Dios, o era un loco o algo mucho peor. Podéis hacerle callar por necio, podéis escupirle y matarle como si fuese un demonio, o podéis caer a sus pies y llamarlos Dios y Señor.”
“if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God.”
“Si alguien piensa que los cristianos consideran la falta de castidad como el vicio supremo, está del todo equivocado. Los pecados de la carne son malos, pero son los menos malos de todos los pecados. Los peores placeres son puramente espirituales: el placer de dejar a alguien en ridículo, el placer de dominar, de tratar con desprecio, de denigrar; el placer del poder o del odio.”
“For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine.”
“Hay personas que no aceptan toda la doctrina cristiana acerca de Cristo, pero que sé sienten tan fuertemente atraídos por Él que son Suyos en un, sentido mucho más profundo de lo que ellos mismos pueden comprender.”
“For when you get down to it, is not the popular idea of Christianity simply this: that Jesus Christ was a great moral teacher and that if only we took His advice we might be able to establish a better social order and avoid another war? Now, mind you, that is quite true. But it tells you much less than the whole truth about Christianity and it has no practical importance at all.”
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always has existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God.”
“Eso explica lo que siempre solía intrigarme acerca de los escritores cristianos: parecen ser tan estrictos en un momento dado y tan libres y desenfadados en otro. Hablan acerca de meros pecados de pensamiento como si estos fueran inmensamente importantes, y luego hablan de los más terribles asesinatos y las más pavorosas traiciones como si lo único que hubiera que hacer fuese arrepentirse y todo será perdonado. En lo que siempre están pensando es en la marca que cada uno de nuestros actos deja en ese minúsculo núcleo central que nadie ve en esta vida pero que cada uno de nosotros tendrá que soportar —o disfrutar- para siempre.”
topics: arrepentimiento , cristianismo , dios , libertad , moralidad , núcleo , perdón , psicoanálisis , psicología , traición
“The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.”
“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. We”
“I do not succeed in keeping the Law of Nature very well, and the moment anyone tells me I am not keeping it, there starts up in my mind a string of excuses as long as your arm.”
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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.