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
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
I desired dragons with a profound desire.
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
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.
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.