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
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
Nothing is really ours until we share it.