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
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.