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 discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.