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
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
In worship, God imparts himself to us.
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.
Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.