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 does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.
The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
Obedience is the key that opens every door.
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.