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
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.
This moment contains all moments.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
Further up and further in!
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
You can make anything by writing.
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.