Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“It’s strange to think how Bardia went to and fro daily between Queen and wife, well assured he did his duty by both (as he did) and without a thought, doubtless, of the pother he made between them. This is what it is to be a man. The one sin the gods never forgive us is that of being born women.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
“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
“You have done what was required of you,' said the Director. 'You have obeyed and waited.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from Till We Have Faces
topics: spiritual
“The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly Nothing.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Great Divorce
“Becoming the Enemy Where the tide flows towards increasing State control, Christianity, with its claims in one way personal and in the other way ecumenical and both ways antithetical to omnicompetent government, must always in fact (though not for a long time yet in words) be treated as an enemy. Like learning, like the family, like any ancient and liberal profession, like the common law, it gives the individual a standing ground against the State. Hence Rousseau, the father of the totalitarians, said wisely enough, from his own point of view, of Christianity, je ne connais rien de plus contrarie a l’esprit social [I know nothing more opposed to the social spirit] . . . . What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else will it hand on to its young. The work is urgent, for men perish around us.”
“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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“badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good.”
“Eso explica lo que siempre solía intrigarme acerca de los escritores cristianos: parecen ser tan estrictos en un momento dado y tan libres y desenfadados en otro. Hablan acerca de meros pecados de pensamiento como si estos fueran inmensamente importantes, y luego hablan de los más terribles asesinatos y las más pavorosas traiciones como si lo único que hubiera que hacer fuese arrepentirse y todo será perdonado. En lo que siempre están pensando es en la marca que cada uno de nuestros actos deja en ese minúsculo núcleo central que nadie ve en esta vida pero que cada uno de nosotros tendrá que soportar —o disfrutar- para siempre.”
topics: arrepentimiento , cristianismo , dios , libertad , moralidad , núcleo , perdón , psicoanálisis , psicología , traición
“All the healthy and outgoing activities which we want him to avoid can be inhibited and nothing given in return, so that at last he may say, as one of my own patients said on his arrival down here, “I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked”.”
“First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”
“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.”
“El odio es a menudo la compensación mediante la que un hombre asustado se resarce de los sufrimientos del miedo. Cuanto más miedo tenga, más odiará. Y el odio es también un antídoto de la vergüenza. Por tanto, para hacer una herida profunda en su caridad, primero debes vencer su valor.”
topics: caridad , comunismo , demonios , espiritualidad , miedo , odio , sufrimientos , valor , vergüenza
“God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.”
“For the same reason we ought to read the psalms that curse the oppressor; read them with fear. Who knows what imprecations of the same sort have been uttered against ourselves? What prayers have Red men, and Black, and Brown and Yellow, sent up against us to their gods or sometimes to God Himself? All over the earth the White Man’s offence ‘smells to heaven’: massacres, broken treaties, theft, kidnappings, enslavement, deportation, floggings, lynchings, beatings-up, rape, insult, mockery, and odious hypocrisy make up that smell.”
“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 ,
“ربما يمكننا أن نتخيل عالماً يقوم فيه الله كل لحظة بتصحيح نتائج إساءة إستخدام مخلوقاته لإرادته الحرة: بحيث تصبح العارضة الخشبية لينة مثل العشب عندما يتم إستخدامها كسلاح، و يرفض الهواء طاعتي إذا حاولت أن أبث فيه الموجات الصوتية التي تحمل الأكاذيب و الشتائم. لكن مثل هذا العالم سيكون عالماً تصبح فيه الأفعال الخاطئة مستحيلة، و بالتالي تكون حرية الإرادة فيه باطلة و عقيمة”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“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
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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.