Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963,) commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as “Jack”, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. Born in Belfast, Ireland, he held academic positions at both Oxford University, 1925–1954, and Cambridge University, 1954–1963. He is best known both 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.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
—C. S. Lewis
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
—C. S. Lewis
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
—C. S. Lewis
Topics: Questions, Religion, God
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
—C. S. Lewis
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.
—C. S. Lewis
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.
—C. S. Lewis
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
—C. S. Lewis
Topics: Character, Perception
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
—C. S. Lewis
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
—C. S. Lewis
Topics: Prayer
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth…you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed.
—C. S. Lewis
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.
—C. S. Lewis
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, said Aslan. And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
—C. S. Lewis
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
—C. S. Lewis
Topics: Experience
Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.
—C. S. Lewis
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a “wandering to find home,” why should we not look forward to the arrival?
—C. S. Lewis
Topics: Death, Nature, Dying
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.
—C. S. Lewis
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
—C. S. Lewis
Topics: Books, Reality, Literature
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God s love for us does not.
—C. S. Lewis
The decay of logic results from an untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
—C. S. Lewis
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
—C. S. Lewis
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
—C. S. Lewis
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.
—C. S. Lewis
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