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
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
The longest way round is the shortest way home
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.
If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better...
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.
Ink is the great cure for all human ills.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.