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
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.
Prosperity knits a man to the world.
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.