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 pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.