Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less.”
“Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
“Does it not make a great difference whether I am, so to speak, the landlord of my own mind and body, or only a tenant, responsible to the real landlord? If somebody else made me, for his own purposes, then I shall have a lot of duties which I should not have if I simply belonged to myself.”
“On the one hand we must never imagine that our own unaided efforts can be relied on to carry us even through the next twenty-four hours as 'decent' people. If He does not support us, not one of us is safe from some gross sin. On the other hand, no possible degree of holiness or heroism which has ever been recorded of the greatest saints is beyond what He is determined to produce in each one of us in the end.”
“I have also said nothing about birth-control. I am not a woman nor even a married man, nor am I a priest. I did not think it my place to take a firm line about pains, dangers and expenses from which I am protected; having no pastoral office which obliged me to do so. Far”
“Si alguien es libre de ser bueno también es libre de ser malo. Y el libre albedrío es lo que ha hecho posible el mal. ¿Por qué, entonces, nos ha dado Dios el libre albedrío? Porque el libre albedrío, aunque haga posible el mal, es también lo único que hace que el amor, la bondad o la alegría merezcan la pena tenerse. Un mundo de autómatas —de criaturas que funcionasen como máquinas— apenas merecería ser creado.”
“When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.”
“Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing. In a sense, the whole Christian life consists in accepting that very remarkable offer.”
“Si hay un poder controlador fuera del universo, no podría mostrársenos como uno de los hechos dentro del universo… del mismo modo que el arquitecto de una casa no podría ser una pared o una escalera o una chimenea de esa casa. El único modo en que podríamos esperar que se nos mostrase sería dentro de nosotros mismos como una influencia o una orden intentando que nos comportásemos de una cierta manera. Y eso es justamente lo que encontramos dentro de nosotros.”
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“There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of ‘Heaven’ ridiculous by saying they do not want ‘to spend eternity playing harps’. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery (harps, crowns, gold, etc.) is, of course, a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible... People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.”
“Cuando se le enseña a un niño a escribir, se le sostiene la mano mientras él forma las letras; es decir, él forma las letras porque vosotros las estáis formando. Nosotros amamos y razonamos porque Dios ama y razona y nos sostiene la mano mientras lo hacemos.”
“La buena gente conoce lo que es el bien y lo que es el mal; la mala gente no conoce ninguno de los dos.”
“It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.”
“what is behind the universe is more like a mind than it is like anything else we know.”
“La moral, pues, parece ocuparse de tres cosas. La primera, de la justicia y la armonía entre los individuos. La segunda, de lo que podríamos llamar ordenar o armonizar lo que acontece en el interior de cada individuo. Y la tercera, del fin general de la vida humana como un todo: aquello para lo que el hombre ha sido creado; el rumbo que debería seguir toda la flota; la canción que el director de la orquesta quiere que ésta toque. Tal vez os hayáis dado cuenta de que las personas modernas están casi siempre pensando en la primera cosa y olvidándose de las otras dos.”
“We are faced, then, with a frightening alternative. This man we are talking about either was (and is) just what He said or else a lunatic, or something worse. Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God. God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form. And”
“Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.”
“After the first few steps in the Christian life we realise that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God.”
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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.