Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“Si los individuos sólo viven setenta años, un estado, una nación o una civilización, que pueden durar más de mil años, son más importantes que un individuo. Pero si el cristianismo es verdad, el individuo no es sólo más importante sino incomparablemente más importante, puesto que él es eterno, y la vida de un estado o una civilización, comparada con la suya, es sólo un momento.”
“That is what is meant in the Bible by loving him: wishing his good, not feeling fond of him nor saying he is nice when he is not.”
“And it is no use either saying that if there is a God of that sort - an impersonal absolute goodness - then you do not like Him and are not going to bother about Him. For the trouble is that one part of you is on His side and really agrees with his disapproval of human greed and trickery and exploitation. You may want Him to make an exception in your own case, to let you off this one time; but you know at bottom that unless the power behind the world really and unalterably detests that sort of behaviour, then He cannot be good. One the other hand, we know that if there does exist an absolute goodness it must hate most of what we do.”
“The function of the husband is to see that this natural preference of hers is not given its head. He has the last word in order to protect other people from the intense family patriotism of the wife. If anyone doubts this, let me ask a simple question. If your dog has bitten the child next door, or if your child has hurt the dog next door, which would you sooner have to deal with, the master of that house or the mistress?”
“Escoger un mal cristiano y un buen ateo no sirve para comparar. Ambos son resultado de ciertas causas naturales y la educación recibida en sus primeros años, tienen ciertos temperamentos: el cristianismo promete poner ambos temperamentos bajo una nueva dirección si ellos se lo permiten. Lo que tenéis derecho a preguntar es si esa nueva dirección, si se le permite hacerse cargo, mejora la compañía. Nos comportamos como si la bondad fuera todo lo que Dios exigiera. Pero esto sería un error fatal.”
topics: ateísmo , bondad , cristianismo , dios , dirección , educación , espiritualidad , materialismo , psicología , temperamento
“Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
“Cuando un hombre se va haciendo mejor, comprende cada vez con más claridad el mal que aún queda dentro de él. Cuando un hombre se hace peor, comprende cada vez menos su mal dad.”
“When a young man who has been going to church in a routine way honestly realises that he does not believe in Christianity and stops going—provided he does it for honesty’s sake and not just to annoy his parents—the spirit of Christ is probably nearer to him then than it ever was before. But above all, He works on us through each other.”
“La bondad, de hecho, es el regalo de Dios a Dick (ateo de buen carácter), no el regalo de Dick a Dios. Del mismo modo, Dios ha permitido que las causas naturales, operando en un mundo dañado por siglos de pecado, produzcan en la señorita Bates (cristiana) la estrechez de mente y los nervios alterados que dan cuenta de la mayor parte de su maldad. Dios tiene pensado, a Su tiempo, arreglar esa parte de ella.”
topics: ateísmo , bondad , cristianismo , dios , maldad , naturaleza-humana , nervios , psicología , teología
“Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not fair’ before you can say Jack Robinson.”
“Mientras Dick (ateo) no se vuelva hacia Dios, piensa que su bondad es suya, y mientras siga pensando eso, no es suya. Lo es cuando Dick se da cuenta de que su bondad no es suya sino un regalo de Dios, y cuando se la ofrece a su vez a Dios, es justamente entonces cuando empieza a ser realmente suya. Porque ahora Dick está empezando a intervenir en su propia creación. Las únicas cosas que podemos guardar son aquellas que le damos libremente a Dios. Lo que intentamos guardarnos para nosotros es justamente lo que con toda seguridad perderemos.”
topics: abandono , bondad , cristianismo , dios , equidad , espiritualidad , libre-albedrío , psicología , teología , voluntad
“But 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.”
“Perhaps it makes it easier if we remember that that is how He loves us. Not for any nice, attractive qualities we think we have, but just because we are the things called selves.”
“man who makes his golf or his motor-bicycle the centre of his life, or a woman who devotes all her thoughts to clothes or bridge or her dog, is being just as ‘intemperate’ as someone who gets drunk every evening.”
“Se llamaron virtudes cardinales porque cumplen, por así decirlo, la función de un eje o pivote). Estas son: prudencia, templanza, justicia y fortaleza.”
“Deus é o nosso único alento, mas também o nosso terror supremo; é a coisa de que mais precisamos, mas também da qual mais queremos nos esconder. É nosso único aliado possível, e tornamo-nos seus inimigos.”
“It is equally natural for us to see the man who helps us without seeing Christ behind him. But we must not remain babies. We must go on to recognize the real Giver. It is madness not to. Because, if we do not, we shall be relying on human beings. And that is going to let us down. The best of them will make mistakes; all of them will die. We must be thankful to all the people who have helped us,we must honor them and love them. But never, never pin your whole faith on any human being; not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.”
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“It must be that, whatever its promise, love does not by itself endure. But why? What was the failure behind the failure of love ?”
“Most of the people who reject Christianity know almost nothing of what they are rejecting: those who condemn what they do not understand are, surely, little men.”
“Olhei e vi a última coisa que esperava ver: um enorme leão avançando para mim. E era estranho porque, apesar de não haver lua, por onde o leão passava havia luar. Foi chegando, chegando. E eu, apavorado. Você talvez pense que eu, sendo um dragão, poderia derrubar a fera com a maior facilidade. Mas não era esse tipo de medo. Não temia que me comesse, mas tinha medo dele... não sei se está entendendo o que quero dizer... Chegou pertinho de mim e me olhou nos olhos. Fechei os meus, mas não adiantou nada, porque ele me disse que o seguisse.”
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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.