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
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
Why must holy places be dark places?
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.