Quote by C.S. Lewis
“Desde el momento en que una creatura se da cuenta de Dios como Dios, y de ella como un yo, se le presenta la terrible alternativa de elegir a Dios o a sí misma como centro. Este pecado es cometido diariamente tanto por niños pequeños y por campesinos ignorantes, como por personas sofisticadas; por personas solitarias, no menos que por aquellas que viven en sociedad. Es la caída en cada vida individual, y en cada día de cada vida individual, el pecado fundamental tras todos los pecados particulares. En este mismo momento usted y yo estamos ya sea cometiéndolo, a punto de cometerlo, o arrepintiéndonos de él. Al despertarnos, tratamos de poner el nuevo día a los pies de Dios; antes de haber terminado de afeitarnos, se vuelve nuestro día, y la parte para Dios se siente como un tributo que debemos pagar de “nuestro propio” bolsillo, descontado del tiempo que sentimos debiera ser “propio nuestro”.”
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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.