Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother’s eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think how much he dislikes it.”
“A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”
topics: Character
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”
topics: Character
“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.”
topics: Character
“No, no hay salida. No hay cielo que contenga un poco de infierno. No hay plan que mantenga esto o aquello del demonio en nuestros corazones o en nuestros bolsillos. Nuestro Satán debe marcharse, completamente.” GEORGE MACDONALD”
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“You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.”
“We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.”
topics: Philosophy
“The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.”
“It was the difference between a landsman in a sinking ship and a horseman on a bolting horse: either may be killed, but the horseman is an agent as well as a patient.”
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“For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
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“En la dimensión de Dios, por así decirlo, encontramos un ser que es tres Personas!' mientras sigue siendo un Ser, del mismo modo que un cubo é» seis cuadrados mientras sigue siendo un cubo. Por supuesto, nosotros no podemos concebir del todo a un Ser así, del mismo modo que, si estuviéramos hechos de manera tal que sólo percibiéramos dos dimensiones en el espacio nunca podríamos imaginar adecuadamente un cubo. Pero podemos tener una ligera noción del mismo. Y cuando lo hacemos tenemos, por primera vez en la vida, una idea positiva, por ligera que sea, de algo superpersonal, de algo que es más que una persona.”
topics: ciencia , cristianismo , dimensión , dios , espiritualidad , geometría , hipercubo , santísima-trinidad , teseracto , trinidad
“But never that. Never in all worlds, that. God can make good use of all that happens. But the loss is real.”
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from Perelandra
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The”
“It is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil.”
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from The Great Divorce
“for a boy goes to a Public School precisely to be made a normal, sensible boy—a good mixer—to be taken out of himself; and eccentricity is severely penalized.”
“I suppose that everyone who has thought about the matter will see what M. de Rougemont meant. Every human love, at its height, has a tendency to claim for itself a divine authority. Its voice tends to sound as if it were the will of God Himself. It tells us not to count the cost, it demands of us a total commitment, it attempts to over-ride all other claims and insinuates that any action which is sincerely done ‘for love’s sake’ is thereby lawful and even meritorious. That erotic love and love of one’s country may thus attempt to ‘become gods’ is generally recognised.”
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from The Four Loves
“This cold truth, this terrible traffic-regulation (‘You, Madam, to the right—you, Sir, to the left’) is just the beginning of the separation which is death itself.”
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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.