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 now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
Prosperity knits a man to the world.
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
It is always the novice who exaggerates.
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.