Clive Staples Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 and died on 22 November 1963 of kidney failure. He was a British writer and theologian.
Lewis’s friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, the renowned author of Lord of the Rings, was a significant aspect of his life. Both men, sharing a passion for literature, were colleagues at Oxford University, a connection that would later influence their respective works.
While Lewis was a nominal Christian from birth, his life took a profound turn at the age of 32. He underwent a spiritual transformation, a journey that he vividly described himself as the ‘most reluctant convert in all England ‘. This pivotal event significantly shaped his literary career, inspiring him to pen numerous non-fiction books on Christian apologetics, including ‘Mere Christianity’, ‘The Problem with Pain ‘, and ‘The Screwtape Letters ‘.
Lewis wrote many famous books like “The Chronicles of Narnia” which he was renowned for.
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
“Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.”
“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks” ~
“Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.”
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
“Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.”
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right then, have it your way.’ ”
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right then, have it your way.’ ”
“If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.”
“Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.”
“We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. “
“A man can’t be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.”
“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”
“There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
“If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
“Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.”
“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.