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
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.
Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.