Quote by C.S. Lewis
“Ningún hombre sabe lo malo que es hasta que ha intentado con todas sus fuerzas ser bueno. Circula la absurda idea de que los buenos no saben lo que es la tentación. Esta es una mentira evidente. Los malos, en un sentido, saben muy poco de la maldad. Han vivido una vida protegida porque han cedido siempre a ella. Jamás averiguamos la fuerza del impulso del mal dentro de nosotros hasta que intentamos luchar contra él, y Cristo, porque fue el único hombre que jamás cedió ante la tentación, es también el único hombre que sabe absolutamente lo que la tentación significa… el único realista total. Muy bien, pues. Lo más importante que aprendemos de un intento serio de practicar las virtudes cristianas es que fracasamos. Si teníamos la idea de que Dios nos había puesto una especie de examen, y de que podíamos obtener buenas notas mereciéndolas, esa idea tiene que ser abandonada.”
topics: bondad , cristianismo , dios , espiritualidad , fe , firmeza , jesucristo , maldad , realismo , virtudes
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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.