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
What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
You people have no imagination!
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.
A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.
You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
I pray because I can't help myself...
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.