C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewiswas a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University, 1925–54, and Cambridge University, 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 November 1898
CountryIreland
We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.