Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“It is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“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 ,
“La urma urmei, sunt două feluri de oameni: unii care îi spun lui Dumnezeu: "Facă-se voia Ta" si alții cărora Dumnezeu le spune: "Facă-se voia ta”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal—ashamed of being a mortal.’ ‘But how could you help that?’ ‘Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they can’t help?”
“when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Valoarea reală, în ce ne priveşte, a oricărei revoluţii, conflagraţii sau perioade de foamete stă în spaima, înşelăciunea, ura, furia şi disperarea individuală pe care ele le pot produce. (...) Dar e mult mai valoros ca scop în sine, anume ca stare de spirit care va duce în mod necesar la excluderea simplităţii, a dragostei pentru semeni, a împăcării şi a tuturor mulţumirilor date de recunoştinţă şi admiraţie, şi astfel va îndepărta fiinţa umană de orice cale care i-ar putea conduce paşii către Rai.”
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“He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”
“Cuando llegamos al hombre, el más evolucionado de todos los mamíferos, nos encontramos con la semejanza más completa a Dios que conocemos. (Puede que haya criaturas en otros mundos que se parezcan más a Dios que los hombres, pero no las conocemos). El hombre no sólo vive sino que ama y razona: en él, la vida biológica alcanza su más alto nivel. Pero lo que el hombre, en su condición natural, no tiene, es vida espiritual; la forma de vida más alta y diferente que existe en Dios.”
“Si pedimos algo que vaya más allá de la simplicidad, es una necedad quejarse de que ese algo más no sea sencillo. Muy”
“Nunca olvides que cuando estamos tratando cualquier placer en su forma sana, normal y satisfactoria, estamos, en cierto sentido, en el terreno del Enemigo. Por eso tratemos siempre de alejarnos de la condición natural de un placer hacia lo que en él es menos natural, lo que menos huele a su Hacedor, y lo menos placentero. La fórmula es un ansia siempre creciente de un placer siempre decreciente. Es más seguro, y es de mejor estilo. Conseguir el alma del hombre y no darle nada a cambio: eso es lo que realmente alegra el corazón de Nuestro Padre.”
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“But whatever the nature of the composite object, you must keep him praying to it—to the thing that he has made, not to the Person who has made him.”
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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.