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
A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.