Quote by C.S. Lewis
“Esta rebelión de vuestros estados de ánimo contra vuestro auténtico yo ocurrirá de todas maneras. Precisamente por eso la fe es una virtud tan necesaria: a menos que les enseñéis a vuestros estados de ánimo «a ponerse en su lugar» nunca podréis ser cristianos cabales, o ni siquiera ateos cabales, sino criaturas que oscilan de un lado a otro, y cuyas creencias realmente dependen del tiempo o del estado de vuestra digestión. En consecuencia es necesario fortalecer el hábito de la fe. El primer paso es reconocer el hecho de que vuestros estados de ánimo cambian. El siguiente es asegurarse de que, si habéis aceptado el cristianismo, algunas de sus principales doctrinas serán deliberadamente expuestas a vuestra mente todos los días. De ahí que las oraciones diarias, las lecturas religiosas y el acudir a la iglesia son partes necesarias de la vida cristiana. Se nos tiene que recordar continuamente aquello en lo que creemos. Ni esta creencia ni ninguna otra permanecerá automáticamente viva en la mente. Debe ser alimentada.”
topics: creencias , cristianismo , fe , firmeza , iglesia , psicología , recordar , religión , virtud , ánimos
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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.