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
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
I don't want to hold you hand!
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
I want God, not my idea of God.
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
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.