Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“You have done what was required of you,' said the Director. 'You have obeyed and waited.”
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“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
“He was missing Ivy Maggs. He did not know that there was any such person and he did not remember her as we know remembering, but there was an unspecified lack in his experience.”
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“The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God is "good" in the sense of being indulgent, or soft, or sympathetic. There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.”
“Among flippant people, the joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every serious subject is discussed in a manner which implies that they have already found a ridiculous side to it.... [Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“happiness has always been the result of something more important than itself.”
“It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. At”
“Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person--and he would not need it.”
“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.”
topics: alma , ansia , demonios , dios , espiritualidad , naturaleza-humana , placer , teología , vicio
“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.”
“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”
“The invisible people agreed about everything. Indeed most of their remarks were the sort it would not be easy to disagree with: "What I always say is, when a chap's hungry, he likes some victuals," or "Getting dark now; always does at night," or even "Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?”
“Ésta es la razón del Enemigo para crear un mundo peligroso, un mundo en el que las cuestiones morales se plantean a fondo. El ve tan bien como tú que el valor no es simplemente una de las virtudes, sino la forma de todas las virtudes en su punto de prueba, lo que significa en el punto de máxima realidad. Una castidad o una honradez o una piedad que cede ante el peligro será casta u honrada o piadosa sólo con condiciones. Pilatos fue piadoso hasta que resultó arriesgado.”
“In avoiding this situation -- this real nakedness of the soul in prayer -- you will be helped by the fact that the humans themselves do not desire it as much as they suppose.”
“...if ever consciously directs his prayers "Not to what I think thou art but to what thou knowest thyself to be", our situation is, for the moment, desperate.”
topics: prayer
“Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. Apparently the faith - I thought it faith - which enables me to pray for the other dead has seemed strong only because I have never really cared, not desperately, whether they existed or not. Yet I thought I did.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Toda la realidad es iconoclasta. La Amada terrenal, incluso en vida, triunfa incesantemente sobre la mera idea que se tiene de ella. Y quiere uno que así sea. Se la quiere con todas sus barreras, todos sus defectos y toda su imprevisibilidad. Es decir, es su directa e independiente realidad. Y esto, no una imagen o un recuerdo, es lo que debemos seguir amando, después de que ha muerto. Pero «esto» resulta ahora inimaginable. En este sentido H. y todos los muertos son como Dios. En este sentido, amarla a ella se ha convertido, dentro de ciertos límites, como amarle a Él. En los dos casos tengo que hacer que el amor abra sus brazos y sus manos a la realidad (sus ojos aquí no cuentan), a través y por encima de toda la cambiante fantasmagoría de mis pensamientos, pasiones e imaginaciones. No debo conformarme con la fantasmagoría misma y adorarla en lugar de Él o amarla en lugar de ella.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
topics: amor , cristianismo , dios , espiritualidad , iconoclastia , imaginación , muerte , pensamientos , realidad , recuerdos
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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.