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
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
Nothing is yet in its true form.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.