Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“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.”
“Antes o después retira, si no de hecho, sí al menos de su experiencia consciente, todos esos apoyos e incentivos. Deja que la criatura se mantenga sobre sus propias piernas, para cumplir, sólo a fuerza de voluntad, deberes que han perdido todo sabor. Es en esos períodos de bajas, mucho más que en los períodos de altos, cuando se está convirtiendo en el tipo de criatura que Él quiere que sea. De ahí que las oraciones ofrecidas en estado de sequía sean las que más le agradan.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
“Una vez que consigas hacerle pensar que “la religión está muy bien, pero hasta cierto punto”, podrás sentirte satisfecho acerca de su alma. Una religión moderada es tan buena para nosotros como la falta absoluta de religión —y más divertida. Otra”
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it, therefore, they must experience many different things; in other words, they must experience change. And since they need change, the Enemy (being a hedonist at heart) has made change pleasurable to them, just as He has made eating pleasurable. But since He does not wish them to make change, any more than eating, an end in itself, He has balanced the love of change in them by a love of permanence. He has contrived to gratify both tastes together on the very world He has made, by that union of change and permanence which we call rhythm. He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme. He gives them in His Church a spiritual ear; they change from a fast to a feast, but it is the same feast as before.”
“cuando cometo un error, mi error infecta a todos aquellos que creen en mí. Cuando peco públicamente, cada espectador o bien lo disculpa, compartiendo así mi culpa, o lo condena, con un inminente peligro para su caridad y humildad. Pero el sufrimiento no produce naturalmente malos efectos en los espectadores (a menos que sean extraordinariamente depravados), sino un efecto bueno: compasión. Por ello, ese mal que Dios usa principalmente para producir el “bien complejo”, está manifiestamente desinfectado, o desprovisto de aquella tendencia a proliferar, que es la peor característica del mal en general.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“يشق على نفس الله كثيراً أن يكون علينا أن نختاره كبديل للجحيم؛ و رغم ذلك فإنه يقبل حتى هذا الإختيار”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“una vez que superan con éxito esta aridez inicial, los humanos se hacen menos dependientes de las emociones y, en consecuencia, resulta mucho más difícil tentarles. Cuanto”
“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”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“In his company she had that curious sensation which most married people know of being with someone whom (for the final but wholly mysterious reason) one could never have married but who is nevertheless more of one’s own world than the person one has married in fact. As”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Pam, Pam—no natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God’s hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Much that was unjust and still more that was simply unintelligible seemed to be accepted, not only without resentment, but with a certain satisfaction provided only that it was striking. Even about his present situation he showed very much less curiosity than Mark would have thought possible. It did not make sense, but then the man did not expect things to make sense. He deplored the absence of tobacco and regarded the “Foreigners” as very dangerous people; but the main thing, obviously, was to eat and drink as much as possible while the present conditions lasted.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“What I'd like to understand," said the Ghost, "is what you're here for, as pleased as Punch, you, a bloody murderer, while I've been walking the streets down there and living in a place like a pigstye all these years." "That is a little hard to understand at first. But it is all over now. You will be pleased about it presently. Till then there is no neet to bother about it." "No need to bother about it? Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" "No, not as you mean. I do not look at my self. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“I did not know then, however, as I do now, the strongest reason for distrust. The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us up big before they prick us.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
“who would simply have ignored such a subject out of existence if any modernized booby had been so unfortunate as to raise it in her presence.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Yes,’ he said, more quietly now. ‘It’s I who should be pitied. It’s I who am asked to give up part of myself. But I’ll do my duty. I’ll not ruin the land to save my own girl… I’m sorry for the girl. But the Priest’s right. Ungit must have her due. What’s one girl—why, what would one man be?—against the safety of us all? It’s only sense that one should die for many. It happens in every battle.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That’s how we get things done.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
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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.