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
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
Tea should be taken in solitude.
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.
"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior
In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.