About C. S. Lewis:

Clive Staples Lewis 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.

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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without e...

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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We are what we believe we are.

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go...

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in...

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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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Author Bio

NameC. S. Lewis
DescriptionChristian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
AliasesClive Staples Lewis; C. S. Lewis
BornNovember 29, 1898
DiedNovember 22, 1963
CountryUnited Kingdom
ProfessionWriter; Poet; University Professor; Novelist; Philosopher; Medievalist; Autobiographer; Specialist In Literature; Theologian; Essayist
WorksThe Chronicles Of Narnia; Mere Christianity; The Screwtape Letters; The Space Trilogy; Till We Have Faces; Surprised By Joy

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