Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ—can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father—that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning. 9 Counting the Cost”
“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
“It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. At”
“A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not to be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge”
“Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.”
“God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.”
“He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”
“badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good.”
“Now that I come to think of it, I have not exactly got a feeling of fondness or affection for myself, and I do not even always enjoy my own society. So apparently ‘Love your neighbour’ does not mean ‘feel fond of him’ or ‘find him attractive’.”
“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.”
“Es inútil intentar ser «nosotros mismos» sin Él. Cuanto más nos resistamos a Él e intentemos vivir por nuestra cuenta, más nos vemos dominados por nuestra herencia genética, nuestra educación, nuestro entorno y nuestros deseos naturales.”
“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.”
“That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have.”
“Esta rebelión de vuestros estados de ánimo contra vuestro auténtico yo ocurrirá de todas maneras. Precisamente por eso la fe es una virtud tan necesaria: 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 primer paso es reconocer el hecho de que vuestros estados de ánimo cambian. El siguiente es asegurarse de que, si habéis aceptado el cristianismo, algunas de sus principales doctrinas serán deliberadamente expuestas a vuestra mente todos los días. De ahí que las oraciones diarias, las lecturas religiosas y el acudir a la iglesia son partes necesarias de la vida cristiana. Se nos tiene que recordar continuamente aquello en lo que creemos. Ni esta creencia ni ninguna otra permanecerá automáticamente viva en la mente. Debe ser alimentada.”
topics: creencias , cristianismo , fe , firmeza , iglesia , psicología , recordar , religión , virtud , ánimos
“Go a step further. In my most clear-sighted moments not only do I not think myself a nice man, but I know that I am a very nasty one. I can look at some of the things I have done with horror and loathing. So apparently I am allowed to loathe and hate some of the things my enemies do.”
“All I have got to is a Something which is directing the universe, and which appears in me as a law urging me to do right and making me feel responsible and uncomfortable when I do wrong.”
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. -Book 2, chapter 1”
“Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. THE END”
“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.”
“Si alguien es libre de ser bueno también es libre de ser malo. Y el libre albedrío es lo que ha hecho posible el mal. ¿Por qué, entonces, nos ha dado Dios el libre albedrío? Porque el libre albedrío, aunque haga posible el mal, es también lo único que hace que el amor, la bondad o la alegría merezcan la pena tenerse. Un mundo de autómatas —de criaturas que funcionasen como máquinas— apenas merecería ser creado. La felicidad que Dios concibe para Sus criaturas más evolucionadas es la felicidad de estar libre y voluntariamente unidas a El y entre sí en un éxtasis de amor y deleite comparado con el cual el amor más arrobado entre hombre y mujer en este mundo es mera insignificancia. Y para ello deben ser libres.”
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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.