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 first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.
In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
You cannot make men good by law.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.