Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth--only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and in the end, despair.”
topics: mere-christianity
“the French Revolution would have taught them that the behaviour aristocrats naturally like is not the behaviour that preserves aristocracy”
“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. But”
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”
“All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour. One”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. If”
“Incidentally, what is the point of keeping in touch with the contemporary scene? Why should one read authors one doesn’t like because they happen to be alive at the same time as oneself?”
“La Iglesia no existe más que para atraer a los hombres a Cristo, para convertirlos en otros Cristos. Si no cumple este cometido, todas las catedrales, el sacerdocio, las misiones, los sermones, incluso la Biblia misma, son sencillamente una pérdida de tiempo. Dios se hizo hombre para ese único fin. Incluso es dudoso que el universo haya sido creado para otro fin que ese. La Biblia dice que el universo entero fue creado para Cristo y que todo ha de ser reunido en Él. Lo que se nos ha dicho es cómo nosotros, los hombres, podemos ser atraídos hacia Cristo. Esto es lo único para lo que hemos sido hechos. Y hay extraños, excitantes indicios en la Biblia de que, cuando hayamos sido atraídos, un gran número de otras cosas en la naturaleza empezarán a funcionar bien. La pesadilla habrá terminado, y llegará el amanecer.”
topics: apocalípsis , biblia , cosmología , cristianismo , dios , iglesia , jesucristo , naturaleza , revelación , universo
“Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ‘religion’ mean nothing unless they make our actual behaviour better; just as in an illness ‘feeling better’ is not much good if the thermometer shows that your temperature is still going up.”
“Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they cannot help?” -Pysche”
topics: till-we-have-faces
“It remains to consider how we can retrieve this disaster. The great thing is to prevent his doing anything. As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance. Let the little brute wallow in it. Let him, if he has any bent that way, write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising the seeds which the Enemy plants in a human soul. Let him do anything but act.”
“Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.”
“Porque el presente es el punto en el que el tiempo coincide con la eternidad.”
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. Don’t we in praise somehow enjoy what we praise, however far we are from it?”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything. I can’t settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
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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.