Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“ربما لا يكون هذا هو "أفضل العوالم الممكنة"، و لكنه العالم الوحيد الممكن (من وجهة نظر الله). العوالم الممكنة يمكن أن تعني فقط "العوالم التي كان يمكن لله أن يصنعها، و لكنه لم يفعل". لكن فكرة أن الله "كان يمكن أن يصنع" تتضمن مفهوماً شديد البشرية لحرية الله. فأياً كان ما تعنيه الحرية البشرية، لا يمكن للحرية الإلهية أن تعني تعيين بدائل و إختيار واحد منها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body? And if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for in the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death unendurably as before it. Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“إذا كان الله كلي العلم و المعرفة فلابد أنه كان يعرف ما سوف يفعله إبراهيم، بدون أي إمتحان، فلماذا إذاً هذا العذاب دون داع؟ ... لكن مهما كان ما عرفه الله، فإن إبراهيم على أية حال لم يكن يعلم أن طاعته كان يمكنها إحتمال مثل هذا الأمر إلى أن علّمه هذا الحدث ذلك، و الطاعة التي لم يكن يعلم أنه سيختارها، لم يكن يستطيع أن يقول أنه سيختارها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“What reason have we, except our desperate wishes, to believe that God is, by any standard we can conceive, 'good'? Doesn't all the prima facie evidence suggest exactly the opposite? What have we to set against it? We set Christ against it. But how if He were mistaken? Almost His last words may have a perfectly clear meaning. He had found that the Being He called Father was horribly and infinitely different from what He had supposed. The trap, so long and carefully prepared and so subtly baited, was at last sprung, on the cross. The vile practical joke had succeeded.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“Yet again, if the fixed nature of matter prevents it from being always, and in all its dispositions, equally agreeable even to a single soul, much less is it possible for the matter of the universe at any moment to be distributed so that it is equally convenient and pleasurable to each member of a society. If a man traveling in one direction is having a journey down hill, a man going in the opposite direction must be going up hill. If even a pebble lies where I want it to lie, it cannot, except by a coincidence, be where you want it to lie. And this is very far from being an evil: on the contrary, it furnishes occasion for all those acts of courtesy, respect, and unselfishness by which love and good humor and modesty express themselves. But it certainly leaves the way open to a great evil, that of competition and hostility.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry ‘masculine’ when we see them in a woman;”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“فالصلاح التام" الكامل لا يمكن أن يجادل بشأن النتيجة التي يجب الوصول إليها، و "الحكمة الكاملة" لا يمكن أن تجادل بشأن أفضل الوسائل المناسبة لتحقيقها. تتمثل حرية الله في حقيقة أنه لا يوجد سبب آخر غير الله نفسه يُنتج أفعاله و لا توجد عقبة خارجية تعوقها – و أن صلاحه الشخصي هو الجذر الذي منه تنمو جميع أفعاله، و قدرته الكلية الشخصية هي المناخ الذي تًزهر و تنمو فيه جميع هذه الأعمال”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Because she is in God’s hands.’ But if so, she was in God’s hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body? And if so, why? If God’s goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for in the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death as unendurably as before it.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“الإرادة البشرية تصبح خلاقة حقاً و تصبح ملكاً لنا بالفعل عندما تكون بالكامل ملكاً لله، و هذا واحد من المعاني الكثيرة التي يكون بها الإنسان الذي يضيّع نفسه يجدها. هذا الفعل العظيم تتم المبادرة به لأجلنا، و يُصنع نيابة عنا، كمثال نحتذي به، و يتم نقله بصورة لا تُصدق إلى جميع المؤمنين، بواسطة المسيح على الجلجثة. هنــــاك تصل درجة الموت المقبول إلى أقصى حدود لما يمكن تخيله و ربما تتخطاها”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“What chokes every prayer and every hope is the memory of all the prayers H. and I offered and all the false hopes we had. Not hopes raised merely by our own wishful thinking, hopes encouraged, even forced upon us, by false diagnoses, by X-ray photographs, by strange remissions, by one temporary recovery that might have ranked as a miracle. Step by step we were 'led up the garden path'. Time after time, when He seemed most gracious He was really preparing the next torture.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“فالمسيحية تعلمنا أن المهمة المريعة، من ناحية ما قد تم إنجازها لأجلنا، أن هناك يداً خبيرة تمسك بأيدينا إذ نحاول أن نتتبع الأحرف الصعبة، و أن المخطوطة التي لدينا تحتاج فقط أن تكون "صورة منسوخة" Copy، و ليس أصلاً Original”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from The Problem of Pain
“Stop it,” spluttered Eustace, “go away. Put that thing away. It’s not safe. Stop it, I say. I’ll tell Caspian. I’ll have you muzzled and tied up.” “Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!” cheeped the Mouse. “Draw and fight or I’ll beat you black and blue with the flat.” “I haven’t got one,” said Eustace. “I’m a pacifist. I don’t believe in fighting.” “Do I understand,” said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, “that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Eustace, nursing his hand. “If you don’t know how to take a joke I shan’t bother my head about you.” “Then take that,” said Reepicheep, “and that--to teach you manners--and the respect due to a knight--and a Mouse--and a Mouse’s tail--” and at each word he gave Eustace a blow with the side of his rapier, which was thin, fine, dwarf-tempered steel and as supple and effective as a birch rod.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“We do not know what happens after death, but I suspect that all of us still have a great deal to learn, and that learning is not necessarily easy.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“La ilusión de la creatura de ser autosuficiente debe, por su propio bien, ser destrozada; y Dios la destroza mediante problemas o miedo a los problemas en la tierra, mediante el crudo temor a las llamas eternas, “sin pensar en la disminución de su gloria”.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“Perhaps your Majesty would like to taste it first,” said Drinian to Caspian. The King took the bucket in both hands, raised it to his lips, sipped, then drank deeply and raised his head. His face was changed. Not only his eyes but everything about him seemed to be brighter. “Yes,” he said, “it is sweet. That’s real water, that. I’m not sure that it isn’t going to kill me. But it is the death I would have chosen--if I’d known about it till now.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
“the ultimate purpose of God’s love for all of us human creatures is love.”
― C.S. Lewis ,
from A Grief Observed
“في أيامنا هذه نحن نقصد بصلاح الله حصرياً تقريباً، محبته، و قد نكون على حق في ذلك. في هذا السياق، معظمنا يعني بالحب، اللطف و الحنان، أو الرغبة في رؤية الآخرين أكثر سعادة من النفس، ليس أن نراهم سعداء بهذه الطريقة أو تلك، بل فقط سعداء. فالذي يمكن أن يرضينا حقاً هو إله يقول على أي شيء نحب أن نفعله، "ماذا يهم، طالما أنهم راضون و قانعون؟" في الحقيقة نحن لا نريد "أباً" في السماء قدر ما نريد "جَداً" في السماء، شيخاً عجوزاً مسناً، الذي كما يقولون، "يحب أن يرى الشباب يستمتعون". و الذي خطته لأجل الكون ببساطة أن يُقال فعلياً في نهاية كل يوم، "لقد إستمتع الجميع بوقت طيب" أنا لا أزعم أنني إستثناء لذلك: كنت أرغب كثيراً في أن أعيش في عالم تحكمه مثل هذه الأفكار الخاطئة. لكن حيث أنه من الواضح بشدة أنني لا أستطيع ذلك، و حيث أن لدي سبب لكي أعتقد، رغم ذلك، أن الله محبة، فإني أستنتج أن مفهومي عن الحب يحتاج إلى تصحيح إن الحب هو شيء أكثر صرامة و قوة و روعة من مجرد اللطف. نعم هناك لطف في الحب: لكن الحب واللطف ليا متزامنين و متماثلين”
― 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.