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 promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
The longest way round is the shortest way home
If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.
The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.