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
Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
This moment contains all moments.
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.
Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)...
I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.