Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“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
“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
“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
“El orgullo siempre significa la enemistad: es la enemistad. Y no sólo la enemistad entre hombre y hombre, sino también la enemistad entre el hombre y Dios. En Dios nos encontramos con algo que es en todos los aspectos inconmensurablemente superior a nosotros. A menos que reconozcamos esto —y, por lo tanto, que nos reconozcamos como nada en comparación— no conocemos a Dios en absoluto. Un hombre orgulloso siempre desprecia todo lo que considera por debajo de él, y, naturalmente, mientras se desprecia lo que se considera por debajo de uno, no es posible apreciar lo que está por encima.”
topics: cristianismo , desprecio , dios , egoísmo , enemistad , espiritualidad , humildad , orgullo , psicología , vanidad
“¿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 Él.”
topics: alegría , amor , bondad , cristianismo , dios , felicidad , libertad , libre-albedrío , sentido-de-la-vida , voluntad
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es la virtud en sí sino este poder de volver a intentarlo de nuevo.”
“When you have realised that our position is nearly desperate you will begin to understand what the Christians are talking about.”
“Every natural love will rise again and live forever [89] in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Aren't you ashamed of yourself?' 'No. Not as you mean. I do not look at myself. I have given up myself...”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! But I will give him the only gift he is still able to receive”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
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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.