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
To say the very thing you mean,the whole of it,nothing more or less or other than what you really mean,that is the whole art and joy of words.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
Joy is the serious business of heaven.
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.