Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1965), commonly referred to as C. S. was a British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of friend J. R. Tolkien and others, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. Biography
“Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will…The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love your neighbor; act as if you did."
– C. S. Lewis
"Look for yourself & you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, & decay… …look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in
– C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity
“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted"
– C. S. Lewis
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him & bad when it turns from Him.”
– C. S. Lewis The Great Divorce
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito
– C. S. Lewis
"Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose."
– C. S. Lewis
"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."
– C. S. Lewis
“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
– C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity
"How hard it is to turn to God when everything is going well – We ‘have all we want’ is a terrible saying when ‘all’ does not include God."
– C. S. Lewis
"Lay before God what is in us, not what ought to be in us."
– C. S. Lewis
"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
– C. S. Lewis
"Don’t shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him."
– C. S. Lewis
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.”
– C. S. Lewis
"I don’t believe that good work is ever done in a hurry."
– C. S. Lewis, Letter to Arthur Greeves 7/11/1916
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
– C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
– C. S. Lewis
"Christian Love, either towards God or towards others, is an affair of the will."
– C. S. Lewis
"Nobody can always have devout feelings; and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards others, is an affair of the will"
– C. S. Lewis
"If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply"
– C. S. Lewis
"The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start."
– C. S. Lewis
"What one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day."
– C. S. Lewis
"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. "
– C. S. Lewis
"Do not dare not to dare. "
– C. S. Lewis – The Horse and His Boy”
"We need not despair even in our worst..our failures are forgiven..only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection."
– C. S. Lewis