Inspirational Quotes by C.S. Lewis
“For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine.”
“it may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, "i'm not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own." Then she goes up one night and finds the teddy bear and the ink and the French Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will has made it possible. it is probably the same in the universe. God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right.”
“No imaginéis que si conocéis a un hombre realmente, humilde será lo que la mayoría de la gente llama «humilde» hoy en día. No será la clase de persona untuosa y reverente que cesa de decir que él, naturalmente, no es nadie. Seguramente lo que pensaréis de él es que se trata de un hombre alegre e inteligente que pareció interesarse realmente en lo que vosotros le decíais a él. Si os cae mal será porque sentís una cierta envidia de alguien que parece disfrutar con tanta facilidad de la vida. Ese nombre no estará pensando en la humildad: no estará pensando en sí mismo en absoluto. Si”
“you will begin to understand what the Christians are talking about. They offer an explanation of how we got into our present state of both hating goodness and loving it. They offer an explanation of how God can be this impersonal mind at the back of the Moral Law and yet also a Person. They tell you how the demands of this law, which you and I cannot meet, have been met on our behalf, how God Himself becomes a man to save man from the disapproval of God. It is an old story and if you want to go into it you will no doubt consult people who have more authority to talk about it than I have. All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts—to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer. And they are very terrifying facts. I wish it was possible to say something more agreeable. But I must say what I think true.”
“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. We”
“Si alguien piensa que los cristianos consideran la falta de castidad como el vicio supremo, está del todo equivocado. Los pecados de la carne son malos, pero son los menos malos de todos los pecados. Los peores placeres son puramente espirituales: el placer de dejar a alguien en ridículo, el placer de dominar, de tratar con desprecio, de denigrar; el placer del poder o del odio.”
“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.”
“Cristo nos ofrece algo por nada. Incluso nos lo ofrece todo por nada. En cierto modo, toda la vida cristiana consiste en aceptar este asombroso ofrecimiento. Pero la dificultad está en alcanzar el punto en el que reconocemos qué todo lo que hemos hecho y podemos hacer es nada. Lo que nos habría gustado es que Dios hubiera tenido en cuenta nuestros puntos a favor y hubiese ignorado nuestros puntos en contra. Una vez más, en cierto modo, puede decirse que ninguna tentación es superada hasta que no dejamos de intentar superarla… hasta que no tiramos la toalla. Pero, claro, no podríamos «dejar de intentarlo» del modo adecuado y por la razón adecuada hasta que no lo hubiéramos intentado con todas nuestras fuerzas. Y, en otro sentido aún, dejarlo todo en manos de Cristo no significa, naturalmente, que dejemos de intentarlo. Confiar en El quiere decir, por supuesto, intentar hacer todo lo que Él dice. No tendría sentido decir que confiamos en una persona si no vamos a seguir su consejo. Así, si verdaderamente os habéis puesto en Sus manos, de esto debe seguirse que estáis tratando de obedecerle. Pero lo estáis haciendo de una manera nueva, de una manera menos preocupada.”
topics: abandono , confianza , cristianismo , dios , espiritualidad , jesucristo , misericordia , obediencia , preocupación , tirar-la-toalla
“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simple ideas about God.”
“a man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. a man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.”
“Los cristianos a menudo han discutido sobre si lo que conduce al cristiano de vuelta a casa son las buenas acciones o la fe en Cristo. En realidad yo no tengo derecho a hablar de una cuestión tan difícil, pero a mí me parece algo así como preguntar cuál de las dos cuchillas de una tijera es la más útil. Un serio esfuerzo moral es lo único que os llevará al punto en el que tiréis la toalla. La fe en Cristo es lo único que en ese punto os salvará de la desesperación: y de esa fe en El deben venir inevitablemente las buenas acciones.”
topics: bondad , cristianismo , desesperación , esfuerzo , fe , jesucristo , moralidad , obras , seriedad , tijeras
“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simple ideas about God.”
“And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with God.”
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive,”
“if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God.”
“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.”
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.”
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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.