C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. He is known for his work on medieval literature and for his Christian apologetics and fiction, especially The Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis died November 22, 1963.

C.S. Lewis Quotes

“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.”

“Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.”

“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”

“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.”

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

“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 this.”
-C.S. Lewis