Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they cannot help? -Psyche”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: till-we-have-faces
“But the most part seemed to think that the mere fact of having contrived for themselves so much misery gave them a kind of superiority. ‘You have led a sheltered life!’ they bawled. ‘You don’t know the seamy side. We’ll tell you. We’ll give you some hard facts’—as if to tinge Heaven with infernal images and colours had been the only purpose for which they came. All alike, so far as I could judge from my own exploration of the lower world, were wholly unreliable, and all equally incurious about the country in which they had arrived. They repelled every attempt to teach them, and when they found that nobody listened to them they went back, one by one, to the bus. This curious wish to describe Hell turned out, however, to be only the mildest form of a desire very common among the Ghosts—the desire to extend Hell, to bring it bodily, if they could, into Heaven.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“قال توما الإكويني عن الألم، مثلما قال أرسطو قبله عن الشعور بالخزي، أنه ليس شيئاً جيداً في حد ذاته، بل شيئاً قد يكون له خير معين في ظروف معينة. هذا يعني أنه إذا كان الشر موجوداً، فإن الألم في إدراكه للشر، حيث أن هذا نوع من المعرفة، هو خير نسبياً؛ لأن البديل هو أن تكون النفس جاهلة بالشر، أو جاهلة بأن الشر مناقض لطبيعتها، و كما يقول الفيلسوف، "أي منهما سيء بشكل واضح". و أنا أعتقد، أننا رغم أننا نقشعر من ذلك، إلا أننا نتفق معه.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: spiritual
“But surely in the case of distinguished people, you’d hear?’ ‘But they aren’t distinguished—no more than anyone else. Don’t you understand? The Glory flows into everyone, and [76] back from everyone: like light and mirrors. But the light’s the thing.’ ‘Do you mean there are no famous men?’ ‘They are all famous. They are all known, remembered, recognised by the only Mind that can give a perfect judgement.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Entrar al cielo es volverse más humano que lo que jamás lograra serlo en la tierra; entrar al infierno, es ser desterrado de la humanidad. Aquello que es lanzado (o se lanza) al infierno, no es un hombre: son sus “restos”.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: spiritual
“I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
topics: hell
“The last, and neo-Platonic, wave of Paganism which had gathered up into itself much from the preceding waves, Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and what not, came far inland and made brackish lakes which have, perhaps, never been drained. Not all Christians at all times have detected them or admitted their existence: and among those who have done so there have always been two attitudes. There was then, and is still, a Christian ‘left’, eager to detect and anxious to banish every Pagan element; but also a Christian ‘right’ who, like St Augustine, could find the doctrine of the Trinity foreshadowed in the Platonici,2 or could claim triumphantly, like Justin Martyr, ‘Whatever things have been well said by all men belong to us Christians’.3”
“el cristianismo asegura que Dios es bueno; que hizo todas las cosas y las hizo para el bien de ellas; que una de las cosas buenas que hizo, específicamente el libre albedrío de las creaturas racionales, por su misma naturaleza incluye la posibilidad del mal; y que las creaturas, valiéndose de esta posibilidad, se han vuelto malas.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“There was a time in childhood when I didn't yet know I was ugly. Then there was a time when I believed as girls do— and as Batta was always telling me— that I could make it more tolerable by this or that done to my clothes or my hair. Now, I chose to be veiled.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
“Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“If God is wiser than we, His judgments must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
topics: what-is-good-v-evil
“Whichever he adopts, your main task will be the same. Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the ‘cause’, in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce in favour of the British war-effort or of Pacifism.”
“We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other fact-hood.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“i F God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. but the creatures are not happy. therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.” this is the problem of pain, in its simplest form.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Cuando decimos: "Con la ayuda de Dios", queremos decir que Dios nos ponga dentro un trocito de Sí, por así decirlo. Él nos presta un poquito de Su capacidad para razonar, y de ese modo pensamos; nos presta un poquito de Su amor y así es como nos amamos los unos a los otros. Nosotros amamos y razonamos porque Dios ama y razona y nos sostiene la mano mientras lo hacemos.”
topics: amor , amor-al-prójimo , ayuda-de-dios , catolicismo , cristianismo , dios , espiritualidad , razonamiento , razón , teología
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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.