Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“Shall I see anything of you this term?” said Anne, “or are you still going to be all taken up with Lucy Pevensie.” “Don’t know what you mean by ,” said Marjorie. “Oh yes, you do,” said Anne. “You were crazy about her last term.” “No, I wasn’t,” said Marjorie. “I’ve got more sense than that. Not a bad little kid in her way. But I was getting pretty tired of her before the end of term.” “Well, you jolly well won’t have the chance any other term!” shouted Lucy. “Two-faced little beast.”
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“Una vez que hubieron enfriado las coronas en el río, Aslan hizo que Frank y Helen se arrollidaran ante él y colocó las coronas en la cabeza de los soberanos. Luego dijo: -Alzaos, rey y reina de de Narnia, padre y madre de muchos reyes que reinarán en Narnia, en las Islas y en Archenland. Sed justos, compasivos y valerosos. Os doy mi bendición.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Troldmandens nevø
“Is there a whole Belbury inside you too?” The sadness that came over him had novelty in it. “And thus,” he quoted from Brother Lawrence, “thus I shall always do, whenever You leave me to myself.”
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“It's our shadow!—the shadow of the Dawn Treader" said Lucy. "Our shadow running along on the bottom of the sea. That time when it got bigger it went over a hill. But in that case the water must be clearer than I thought! Good gracious, I must be seeing the bottom of the sea; fathoms and fathoms down." [...] At present, for instance, they were passing over a mass of soft purply green with a broad, winding strip of pale grey in the middle of it. But now that she knew it was on the bottom she saw it much better. She could see that bits of the dark stuff were much higher than other bits and were waving gently. "Just like trees in a wind," said Lucy. "And I do believe that's what they are. It's a submarine forest.”
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“But does it mean that everything--everything--that is in us can go on to the Mountains?" "Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. ... Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
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from The Great Divorce
“ما فقده الإنسان بالسقوط، كان طبيعته المحددة الأصلية”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“And you could—and you can—bear that?’ ‘You ask that? Oh, Queen Orual, I begin to think you know nothing of love. Or no; I’ll not say that. Yours is Queen’s love, not commoners’. Perhaps you who spring from the gods love like the gods. Like the Shadowbrute. They say the loving and the devouring are all one, don’t they?”
“It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began.”
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“Specially now,” she said. “Here in the Institute, we’re backing the crusade against Red Tape.”
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“Las cosas siempre actúan de acuerdo con su naturaleza. Ha obtenido lo que más deseaba; posee energía inagotable e infinitos días de vida, como una diosa. Pero una vida larga con un corazón malvado no es otra cosa que un sufrimiento interminable y ya empieza a darse cuenta de ello. Todos obtienen lo que desean; no a todos les gusta.”
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from Troldmandens nevø
“There’s something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there’s also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Faugh! You’re full fed. Gorged with other men’s lives, women’s too: Bardia’s, mine, the Fox’s, your sister’s—both your sisters’.”
“على مدى حوالي مائة عام قد ركزنا كثيراً على واحدة فقط من الفضائل و هي "اللطف" أو "الرحمة"، حتى أن معظمنا لا يشعر بأي شيء سوى الرحمة لكي كون صالحاً حقاً، أو أي شيء سوى القسوة لكي يكون شريراً حقاً. هذه التطورات الأخلاقية غير المتوازنة ليست غير شائعة.. و إذا كان لابد أن تكون هناك فضيلة ما يتم غرسها على حساب باقي الفضائل كلها، فلا يوجد ما يستحق ذلك أكثر من الرحمة.. لكن المشكلة الحقيقية هي أن "الرحمة" صفة من السهل حتمياً أن ننسبها إلى أنفسنا على أسس غير سليمة على الإطلاق. فكل إنسان يشعر أنه خيّر إذا لم يحدث ما يضايقه في تلك اللحظة. و هكذا يقوم الإنسان بتعزية نفسه عن كل رذائله الأخرى بواسطة إقتناعه بأن "قلبه أبيض"، و أنه "لا يؤذي ذبابة"، رغم أنه في الحقيقة لم يقم بأي تضحية لمخلوق زميل له. إننا نعتقد أننا صالحون عندما نكون فقط سعداء، إلا أنه ليس بهذه السهولة، على نفس تلك الأسس، أن يتخيل المرء نفسه معتدلاً، أو متعففاً، أو متواضعاً”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Pentru mine toate vremurile înseamnă curând.”
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“Soon anyone who had ever been in the hands of the police at all would come under the control of the NICE; in the end, every citizen.”
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“But ye can get some likeness of it if ye say that both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective. Not only this valley but all their earthly past will have been Heaven to those who are saved. Not only the twilight in that town, but all their life on earth too, will then be seen by the damned to have been Hell. That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“هكذا الروح البشرية من كونها سيدة الطبيعة البشرية أصبحت مجرد نزيل في بيتها الخاص، بل حتى سجيناً، و أصبح الوعي العقلاني كما هو عليه الآن، بقعة ضوء متقطع تستقر على جزء صغير من الإرشادات الدماغية. لكن هذه المحدودية لقوى الروح كانت شراً أقل من فساد الروح نفسها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“No es seguro que alguien malvado de vuestra raza no encuentre un secreto tan diabólico como la Palabra Deporable y lo use para destruir a todos los seres vivos. Y pronto, muy pronto, antes de que seáis ancianos, grandes naciones de vuestro mundo estarán gobernadas por tiranos a quienes importará tan poco la felicidad, la justicia y la compasión como a la emperatriz Jadis. Que vuestro mundo tenga cuidado.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Troldmandens nevø
“My anger protected me only for a short time; anger wearies itself out and truth comes in. For it was all true—truer than Ansit could know. I had rejoiced when there was a press of work, had heaped up needless work to keep him late at the palace, plied him with questions for the mere pleasure of hearing his voice.”
“At that moment she heard soft, heavy footfalls coming along the corridor behind her; and of course she remembered what she had been told about the Magician walking in his bare feet and making no more noise than a cat. It is always better to turn round than to have anything creeping up behind your back. Lucy did so. Then her face lit up till, for a moment (but of course she didn’t know it), she looked almost as beautiful as that other Lucy in the picture, and she ran forward with a little cry of delight and with her arms stretched out. For what stood in the doorway was Aslan himself, The Lion, the highest of all High Kings. And he was solid and real and warm and he let her kiss him and bury herself in his shining mane. And from the low, earthquake-like sound that came from inside him, Lucy even dared to think that he was purring. “Oh, Aslan,” said she, “it was kind of you to come.” “I have been here all the time,” said he, “but you have just made me visible.” “Aslan!” said Lucy almost a little reproachfully. “Don’t make fun of me. As if anything could do would make visible!” “It did,” said Aslan. “Do you think I wouldn’t obey my own rules?”
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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.