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
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.