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
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.