Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“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
“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
“Supposing science ever became complete so that it knew every single thing in the whole universe. Is it not plain that the questions, ‘Why is there a universe?’ ‘Why does it go on as it does?’ ‘Has it any meaning?’ would remain just as they were?”
“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
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.”
“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 ,
“Porque el presente es el punto en el que el tiempo coincide con la eternidad.”
“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
“Some are, no doubt. The sensualist, I’ll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. But the time comes on when, though the pleasure becomes less and less and the craving fiercer and fiercer, and though he knows that joy can never come that way, yet he prefers to joy the mere fondling of unappeasable lust and would not have it taken from him. He’d fight to the death to keep it. He’d like well to be able to scratch: but even when he can scratch no more he’d rather itch than not.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Of course there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition ‘I am losing interest in this’ to the proposition ‘This is false’. But, as I said before, it is jargon, not reason, you must rely on.”
“At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of ‘Christians’ in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but which, in fact, is largely pictorial.”
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy.”
“Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct”
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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.