C. S. Lewis

Frases de C. S. Lewis

• “Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

• “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

• “God is not a tame lion.”

• “Christianity, if false, is of no importance; and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

• “We are not necessarily attracted to people whose weaknesses are the same as our own.”

• “A man cannot always be a child, but he can always be childish.”

• “Pride is the fundamental sin, the ultimate evil.”

• “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

• “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.”

• “Miracles are a retrying of the chapters of a story that has been interrupted.”

• “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

• “No man is as good as his best intentions.”

• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

• “I have become my own oppressor.”

• “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”

• “It is easier to be enthusiastic about Humanity with a capital 'H' than it is to love our neighbors.”

• “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

• “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

• “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

• “We all want progress. But if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.”

• “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

• “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”

• “The history of humanity is the history of men trying to find something other than God that will make them happy.”

• “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

• “God wants to give us nothing less than Himself and, in fact, He can give us nothing less. For what is not Himself is nothing.”

• “Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment of the will.”

• “The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”

• “You cannot have a pleasure without a duty.”

• “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

• “Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.”

• “It is no use saying a hammer is bad; you can use a hammer to bash a man’s head in.”

• “We are mirrors whose brightness comes entirely from the sun that shines upon us.”

• “Love ceases to be love when it becomes a god.”

• “I may not know who I am, but I know now who You are.”

• “Prayer does not change God, it changes me.”

• “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing.”

• “No man who says 'I’m as good as you' believes it.”

• “Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in'; aim at Earth and you will get neither.”

• “The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.”