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
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
Autumn is really the best of the seasons
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
The only people who hate escapism are jailers.
It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
There seems no plan because it is all plan.
My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.