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
Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.
Christianity is a fighting religion.
The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.