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
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
No one can teach riding so well as a horse.