C S Lewis Quotes Quotes

“God and His acts are not in time.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“O espírito desse esquema, ainda que não em todos os detalhes, está bem presente no Modelo Medieval. E se o leitor suspender sua descrença e exercitar sua imaginação neste assunto, mesmo que só por alguns minutos, acho que tomará consciência do amplo reajuste envolvido na leitura atenta dos poetas antigos. Encontrará toda a sua atitude perante o Universo invertida. No pensamento moderno, isto é, no pensamento evolucionário, o homem está no topo de uma escada cuja base se perde na escuridão; nesse Modelo, ele está na base de uma escada cujo topo é invisível por causa da luz ofuscante. Também compreenderá que algo, além do gênio individual, ajudou a dar aos anjos de Dante aquela majestade inigualável. Milton, ao perseguir esse objetivo, errou o alvo. O classicismo entrou no meio. Seus anjos têm anatomia demais, armaduras demais, e são por demais parecidos com os deuses de Homero e Virgílio, e (por essa mesma razão) são muito pouco parecidos com os deuses do paganismo em seus desenvolvimentos religiosos mais elevados. Depois de Milton, instaurou-se a degradação completa e, por fim, chegamos aos anjos puramente consoladores - portanto, femininos e aguados - da arte do século XIX.”
― Clive Staples Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“Men can't help in a job, you know. They can be induced to do it: not to help while you're doing it. At least, it makes them grumpy.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Are we not really an increasingly cruel age?
Perhaps we are: but I think we have become
so in an attempt to reduce all virtues to kindness.
For Plato rightly taught that virtue is one.
You can not be kind unless you have all other virtues.
If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have
never yet done a fellow creature great mischief,
that is only because your neighbor’s welfare has not yet
happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease.
Every vice leads to cruelty.
Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by
charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty.
Most atrocities are simulated by accounts of the
enemy’s atrocities; and pity for the oppressed classes,
when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads
by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities
of a reign of terror.”
― C.S.Lewis

“Too many individuals have been wrongly instructed that biblical love means they must be "nice," and suffer quietly--even if they are mistreated and abused. But as C.S. Lewis wisely wrote, 'Love is more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― Leslie Vernick, The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It

“For those few years H. and I feasted on love; every mode of it—solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes as comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed