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
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.
God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.