Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“There’s always a prevailing west wind in these seas all through the late summer, and it always changes after the New Year. We’ll have plenty of wind for sailing westward; more than we shall like from all accounts.” “That’s true, Master,” said an old sailor who was a Galmian by birth. “You get some ugly weather rolling up from the east in January and February. And by your leave, Sire, if I was in command of this ship, I’d say to winter here and begin the voyage home in March.” “What’d you eat while you were wintering here?” asked Eustace. “This table,” said Ramandu, “will be filled with a king’s feast every day at sunset.” “Now you’re talking!” said several sailors.”
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“Why should anyone be particularly interested in what she said?”
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“For every attempt to see the shape of eternity except through the lens of Time destroys your knowledge of Freedom.”
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from The Great Divorce
“The Lion drew a deep breath, stooped its head even lower and gave him a Lion’s kiss. And at once Digory felt that new strength and courage had gone into him.”
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“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.”
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“Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat, Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. The first three constitute the Trivium or threefold way; the last four, the Quadrivium.”
“pensar en el amor de Dios por nosotros es algo mucho más seguro que pensar en nuestro amor por ÉL Nadie puede experimentar sentimientos devotos en todo momento, e incluso si pudiéramos, los sentimientos no son lo que a Dios le importa más. El amor cristiano, ya sea hacia Dios o hacia el hombre, es un asunto de la voluntad. Si intentamos hacer Su voluntad estamos obedeciendo el mandamiento «Amarás al Señor tu Dios».”
“For when you get down to it, is not the popular idea of Christianity simply this: that Jesus Christ was a great moral teacher and that if only we took His advice we might be able to establish a better social order and avoid another war? Now, mind you, that is quite true. But it tells you much less than the whole truth about Christianity and it has no practical importance at all.”
“Now that I come to think of it, I have not exactly got a feeling of fondness or affection for myself, and I do not even always enjoy my own society. So apparently ‘Love your neighbour’ does not mean ‘feel fond of him’ or ‘find him attractive’.”
“What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ—can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father—that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning. 9 Counting the Cost”
“Dios sabe cómo describirse a sí mismo mucho mejor de lo que nosotros sabemos describirlo. Él sabe que Padre e Hijo se parece más a la relación entre la Primera y la Segunda Persona que ninguna otra cosa en la que podamos pensar. Lo más importante que debemos saber es que es una relación de amor. El Padre se deleita en el Hijo; el Hijo venera al Padre.”
topics: causalidad , cristianismo , dios , doctrina , espiritualidad , eternidad , jesucristo , santísima-trinidad , teología
“God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.”
“...in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else.”
“Debes, por tanto, conservar celosamente en su cabeza la curiosa suposición: “Mi tiempo es mío”. Déjale tener la sensación de que empieza cada día como el legítimo dueño de veinticuatro horas. Haz que considere como una penosa carga la parte de esta propiedad que tiene que entregar a sus patrones, y como una generosa donación aquella parte adicional que asigna a sus deberes religiosos.”
“When He talks of their losing their selves, He only mean abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. Hence, while He is delighted to see them sacrificing even their innocent wills to His, He hates to see them drifting away from their own nature for any other reason.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
“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.”
“And O, my poor Despoina, do you think he ever hears The wail of hearts he has broken, the sound of human ill? He cares not for our virtues, our little hopes and fears, And how could it all go on, love, if he knew of laughter and tears? Ah, sweet, if a man could cheat him! If you could flee away Into some other country beyond the rosy West, To hide in the deep forests and be for ever at rest From the rankling hate of God and the outworn world's decay!”
“En el momento en que tenemos un ego, existe la posibilidad de poner a ese ego por encima de todo —de querer ser el centro— de querer, de hecho, ser Dios. Ese fue el pecado de Satán: y ese fue el pecado que él enseñó a la raza humana.”
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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.