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
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.