Clive Staples Lewis was an English author, essay writer, poet, literary critic, broadcaster, medievalist, lay theologian, academic, and lecturer renowned for his works such as ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’. Lewis started his career as a writer with ‘Spirits in Bondage’ in 1919. In 1933, he published his novel ‘The Pilgrim’s Regress’. Lewis published ‘The Allegory of Love’ in 1936 and ‘Out of the Silent Planet’ in 1938. Lewis published ‘The Problem of Pain’ in 1940 and ‘The Screwtape Letters’ in 1942. In 1943, he published two novels ‘Perelandra’ and ‘The Abolition of Man’. Lewis published ‘A Preface to Paradise Lost’ in 1944 and three books – ‘The Great Divorce’, ‘Prince Caspian’, and ‘The Hideous Strength’. He is distinguished for his fictional-work and also for non-fiction Christian apologetics. On his 50th death anniversary, he was glorified with a memorial in Poets’ Corner. His works, essays, writings, thoughts and sayings have been translated in approximately 30 languages. In 1956, Lewis came up with ‘Till We Have Faces’ and ‘The Last Battle’. He published ‘Reflection on the Psalms’ in 1958. In 1960, Lewis published ‘The Four Loves’, ‘The World’s Last Night’, and ‘Studies in Words’. His thoughts, writings, quotations and sayings are so popular that they are frequently used by people all over. In fact, he is one of the most quoted authors on social media. Here is a collection of thoughts and quotes by C.S Lewis on inspiration, books, reading and friendship.
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.
C. S. Lewis
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
C. S. Lewis
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. Lewis
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
C. S. Lewis
That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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!
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. Lewis
Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
C. S. Lewis
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
C. S. Lewis
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
C. S. Lewis
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
C. S. Lewis
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
 will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker. )
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