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
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.
In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.
Obedience is the road to freedom.