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 be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.
but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy