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
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.