Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
“Does it matter to a man dying in a desert by which choice of route he missed the only well?”
“I cried out for the pain of man, I cried out for my bitter wrath Against the hopeless life that ran For ever in a circling path From death to death since all began; Till on a summer night I lost my way in the pale starlight And saw our planet, far and small, Through endless depths of nothing fall A lonely pin-prick spark of light, Upon the wide, enfolding night, With leagues on leagues of stars above it, And powdered dust of stars below- Dead things that neither hate nor love it Not even their own loveliness can know, Being but cosmic dust and dead. And if some tears be shed, Some evil God have power, Some crown of sorrow sit Upon a little world for a little hour- Who shall remember? Who shall care for it?”
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“During one walk, Jack engaged in the first metaphysical argument that he can remember. It concerned the nature of the future: Is it like a line that you can’t see or a line that is not yet drawn? He would delight in such arguments for the rest of his life.”
“¿Pero cómo va ese hombre a unirse a Dios? ¿Cómo es posible para nosotros ser absorbidos en la vida tri-Personal? En nuestro estado natural no somos hijos de Dios: sólo somos (por así decirlo) estatuas. No poseemos Zoe o vida espiritual: sólo poseemos Bios o vida biológica que a su tiempo se agotará y morirá. Pues bien, todo lo que ofrece el cristianismo es esto: que podemos, si dejamos que Dios se salga con la Suya, llegar a compartir la vida de Cristo. Si lo hacemos, estaremos compartiendo una vida que fue engendrada, no creada, que siempre ha existido y que siempre existirá. Cristo es el Hijo de Dios. Si compartimos esta clase de vida nosotros también seremos hijos de Dios. Amaremos al Padre como Él le ama y el Espíritu Santo se despertará en nosotros. El vino a este mundo y se hizo hombre para difundir a otros hombres la clase de vida que Él tiene, a través de lo que yo llamo una «buena infección». Cada cristiano debe convertirse en un pequeño Cristo.”
topics: causalidad , cristianismo , dios , doctrina , espiritualidad , espíritu-santo , eternidad , jesucristo , santísima-trinidad , teología
“Temperance referred not specially to drink, but to all pleasures; and it meant not abstaining, but going the right length and no further.”
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in the cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.”
“burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“La vida natural en cada uno de nosotros es algo centrado en sí mismo, algo que quiere ser mimado y admirado, que quiere aprovecharse de las demás vidas, explotar el universo. Y especialmente quiere que se la deje a su aire: mantenerse aparte de cualquier cosa que sea mejor o más alto que ella, de cualquier cosa que la haga sentirse poca cosa. Tiene miedo de la luz y el aire del mundo espiritual, del mismo modo que las personas que han sido educadas para ser sucias tienen miedo de tomar un baño. Y en cierto sentido tiene razón. Sabe que si la vida espiritual se adueña de ella, todo su egocentrismo y su amor propio morirán, y está dispuesta a luchar con uñas y dientes para evitarlo.”
“Si encuentro en mí mismo un deseo que nada de este mundo puede satisfacer, la explicación más probable es que fui hecho para otro mundo. Si ninguno de mis placeres terrenales lo satisface, eso no demuestra que el universo es un fraude. Probablemente los placeres terrenales nunca estuvieron destinados a satisfacerlos, sino sólo a excitarlos, a sugerir lo auténtico.”
“Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority.”
“Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. a world of automata — of creatures that worked like machines — would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. and for that they must be free.”
“Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness. It is after you have realised that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power—it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk. When you know you are sick, you will listen, to. the doctor.”
“Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. THE END”
“Es inútil intentar ser «nosotros mismos» sin Él. Cuanto más nos resistamos a Él e intentemos vivir por nuestra cuenta, más nos vemos dominados por nuestra herencia genética, nuestra educación, nuestro entorno y nuestros deseos naturales.”
“Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.”
“When He said, ‘Be perfect,’ He meant it. He meant that we must go in for the full treatment. It is hard; but the sort of compromise we are all hankering after is harder—in fact, it is impossible. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. 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.”
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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.