Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“If two instincts are in conflict, and there is nothing in a creature’s mind except those two instincts, obviously the stronger of the two must win. But at those moments when we are most conscious of the Moral Law, it usually seems to be telling us to side with the weaker of the two impulses.”
“Tenéis que escoger. O ese hombre era, y es, el Hijo de Dios, o era un loco o algo mucho peor.”
“el cristianismo afirma que todo ser humano individual vivirá para siempre, y esto debe ser o falso o verdadero. Hay muchas cosas sobre las que no me haría falta molestarme si fuera a vivir sólo setenta años, pero por las que más valdrá que me moleste, y mucho, si voy a vivir eternamente. Tal vez mi mal carácter o mis celos están empeorando gradualmente… tan gradualmente que su aumento a lo largo de setenta años no será demasiado evidente. Pero podrían llegar a ser un infierno dentro de un millón de años: de hecho, si el cristianismo es verdad, infierno es el término técnicamente correcto para describir lo que podrían llegar a ser.”
“The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness. All the things which enable a bad man to be effectively bad are in themselves good things—resolution, cleverness, good looks, existence itself.”
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it?”
topics: christian
“Toda clase de cosas buenas que creíamos eran nuestras, pero que en realidad se debían a una buena digestión, se desprenderán de nosotros, y toda clase de cosas malas que se debían a los complejos o a la mala salud de los demás se desprenderán de ellos. Y entonces, por primerísima vez, veremos a todos tal como son. Y habrá sorpresas. Y”
“But supposing God became a man--suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person--then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes man. Our attempts at this dying will succeed only if we men share in God's dying, just as our thinking can succeed only because it is a drop out of the ocean of His intelligence: but we cannot share God's dying unless God dies; and He cannot die except by being a man. That is the sense in which He pays our debt, and suffers for us what He Himself need not suffer at all.”
“Morality, then, seems to be concerned with three things. Firstly, with fair play and harmony between individuals. Secondly, with what might be called tidying up or harmonising the things inside each individual. Thirdly, with the general purpose of human life as a whole: what man was made for: what course the whole fleet ought to be on: what tune the conductor of the band wants it to play.”
“But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense—love as distinct from ‘being in love’—is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else. ‘Being in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”
“Si los individuos sólo viven setenta años, un estado, una nación o una civilización, que pueden durar más de mil años, son más importantes que un individuo. Pero si el cristianismo es verdad, el individuo no es sólo más importante sino incomparablemente más importante, puesto que él es eterno, y la vida de un estado o una civilización, comparada con la suya, es sólo un momento.”
“That is what is meant in the Bible by loving him: wishing his good, not feeling fond of him nor saying he is nice when he is not.”
“And it is no use either saying that if there is a God of that sort - an impersonal absolute goodness - then you do not like Him and are not going to bother about Him. For the trouble is that one part of you is on His side and really agrees with his disapproval of human greed and trickery and exploitation. You may want Him to make an exception in your own case, to let you off this one time; but you know at bottom that unless the power behind the world really and unalterably detests that sort of behaviour, then He cannot be good. One the other hand, we know that if there does exist an absolute goodness it must hate most of what we do.”
“The function of the husband is to see that this natural preference of hers is not given its head. He has the last word in order to protect other people from the intense family patriotism of the wife. If anyone doubts this, let me ask a simple question. If your dog has bitten the child next door, or if your child has hurt the dog next door, which would you sooner have to deal with, the master of that house or the mistress?”
“Escoger un mal cristiano y un buen ateo no sirve para comparar. Ambos son resultado de ciertas causas naturales y la educación recibida en sus primeros años, tienen ciertos temperamentos: el cristianismo promete poner ambos temperamentos bajo una nueva dirección si ellos se lo permiten. Lo que tenéis derecho a preguntar es si esa nueva dirección, si se le permite hacerse cargo, mejora la compañía. Nos comportamos como si la bondad fuera todo lo que Dios exigiera. Pero esto sería un error fatal.”
topics: ateísmo , bondad , cristianismo , dios , dirección , educación , espiritualidad , materialismo , psicología , temperamento
“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. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
“Cuando un hombre se va haciendo mejor, comprende cada vez con más claridad el mal que aún queda dentro de él. Cuando un hombre se hace peor, comprende cada vez menos su mal dad.”
“When a young man who has been going to church in a routine way honestly realises that he does not believe in Christianity and stops going—provided he does it for honesty’s sake and not just to annoy his parents—the spirit of Christ is probably nearer to him then than it ever was before. But above all, He works on us through each other.”
“La bondad, de hecho, es el regalo de Dios a Dick (ateo de buen carácter), no el regalo de Dick a Dios. Del mismo modo, Dios ha permitido que las causas naturales, operando en un mundo dañado por siglos de pecado, produzcan en la señorita Bates (cristiana) la estrechez de mente y los nervios alterados que dan cuenta de la mayor parte de su maldad. Dios tiene pensado, a Su tiempo, arreglar esa parte de ella.”
topics: ateísmo , bondad , cristianismo , dios , maldad , naturaleza-humana , nervios , psicología , teología
“Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not fair’ before you can say Jack Robinson.”
“Mientras Dick (ateo) no se vuelva hacia Dios, piensa que su bondad es suya, y mientras siga pensando eso, no es suya. Lo es cuando Dick se da cuenta de que su bondad no es suya sino un regalo de Dios, y cuando se la ofrece a su vez a Dios, es justamente entonces cuando empieza a ser realmente suya. Porque ahora Dick está empezando a intervenir en su propia creación. Las únicas cosas que podemos guardar son aquellas que le damos libremente a Dios. Lo que intentamos guardarnos para nosotros es justamente lo que con toda seguridad perderemos.”
topics: abandono , bondad , cristianismo , dios , equidad , espiritualidad , libre-albedrío , psicología , teología , voluntad
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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.