Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“The Christianity Lewis espouses is humane, but not easy: it asks us to recognize that the great religious struggle is not fought on a spectacular battleground, but within the ordinary human heart, when every morning we awake and feel the pressures of the day crowding in on us, and we must decide what sort of immortals we wish to be.”
“If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?”
“The truth is we believe in decency so much--we feel the Rule of Law pressing on us so--that we cannot bear to face the fact that we are breaking it, and consequently we try to shift the responsibility. For you notice that it is only for our bad behavior that we find all these explanations.”
“...the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him best.”
“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.”
“All you then have to do is to keep out of his mind the question “If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?”
“But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live forever. And we are asking them to do a quite different job, for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us- on the laymen.”
“In Mere Christianity, no less than in his more fantastical works, the Narnia stories and science fiction novels, Lewis betrays a deep faith in the power of the human imagination to reveal the truth about our condition and bring us to hope. “The longest way round is the shortest way home”2 is the logic of both fable and of faith.”
“Un cristiano corriente se arrodilla para hacer sus oraciones. Está intentando ponerse en contacto con Dios. Pero si es cristiano sabe que lo que le está instando a orar también es Dios: Dios, por así decirlo, dentro de él. Pero también sabe que todo su conocimiento real de Dios le viene a través de Cristo, el Hombre que es Dios…, que Cristo está de pie a su lado, ayudándole a orar, orando con él. ¿Veis lo que está ocurriendo? Dios es aquello a lo cual él está orando, la meta que está intentando alcanzar. Dios es también lo que dentro de él le empuja, la fuerza de su motivación. Dios es también el camino o puente a lo largo del cual está siendo empujado hacia esa meta! De manera que la triple vida del Ser tripersonal está de hecho teniendo lugar en ese dormitorio corriente en el que un hombre corriente está diciendo sus oraciones. Ese hombre está siendo captado por la clase de vida más alta, lo que yo llamo Zoe o vida espiritual: está siendo atraído hacia Dios, por Dios, mientras que sigue siendo el mismo.”
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“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth--only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with, and, in the end, despair.”
“Ask yourself, ‘If I were sure that I loved God, what would I do?’ When you have found the answer, go and do it. On”
“El cristianismo está de acuerdo con el dualismo en que este universo está en guerra. Pero no cree que sea una guerra entre poderes independientes. Cree que es una guerra civil, una rebelión, y que estamos viviendo en una parte del universo ocupada por los rebeldes. Un territorio ocupado por el enemigo: eso es lo que es este mundo. El cristianismo es la historia de cómo llegó aquí el verdadero rey, disfrazado, si queréis, y nos convocó a todos para tomar parte en una gran campaña de sabotaje. Cuando acudís a la iglesia estáis en realidad escuchando la secreta telegrafía de nuestros amigos; precisamente por eso el enemigo está tan ansioso por impedirnos acudir. Lo hace aprovechándose de nuestra vanidad, de nuestra pereza y de nuestro esnobismo intelectual.”
“And He and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble—delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.”
“Remember, this repentance, this willing submission to humiliation and a kind of death, is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose: it is simply a description of what going back to Him is like.”
“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists.”
“el orgullo es un cáncer espiritual, devora la posibilidad misma del amor, de la satisfacción, o incluso del sentido común.”
“are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”
“La auténtica prueba de que estamos en presencia de Dios es que, o nos olvidamos por completo de nosotros mismos, o nos vemos como objetos pequeños y despreciables. Y es mejor olvidarnos por completo de nosotros mismos. Es”
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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.