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 we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
Selfishness has never been admired.
To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.