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
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.
You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?