Who is C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Lewis was close friends with J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. Both men served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's ...
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C. S. Lewis Poems

• World's Desire
  Love, there is a castle built in a country desolate,
  On a rock above a forest where the trees are grim and great,
  Blasted with the lightning sharp-giant boulders strewn between,
  And the mountains rise above, and the cold ravine...
• Victory
  Roland is dead, Cuchulain's crest is low,
  The battered war-rear wastes and turns to rust,
  And Helen's eyes and Iseult's lips are dust
  And dust the shoulders and the breasts of snow....
• Tu Ne Quaesieris
  For all the lore of Lodge and Myers
  I cannot heal my torn desires,
  Nor hope for all that man can speer
  To make the riddling earth grow clear....
• To Sleep
  I will find out a place for thee, O Sleep-
  A hidden wood among the hill-tops green,
  Full of soft streams and little winds that creep
  The murmuring boughs between....
• The Witch
  Trapped amid the woods with guile
  They've led her bound in fetters vile
  To death, a deadlier sorceress
  Than any born for earth's distress...

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C. S. Lewis Quotes

• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
• I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
• No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

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Comments about C. S. Lewis

• Iustuspeccator: "nowhere outside the minds of devils and bad men is there a 'sic volo, sic iubeo.' the universe itself is a constitutional monarchy. the almighty himself repudiates the sort of sovereignty that tyndale thinks fit for henry viii" -c.s lewis, english literature in the sixteenth c.
• Dgwarfield: that hideous strength by c.s. lewis in his usual polished prose, the author creates an elaborate satiric picture of a war between morality and devilry.
• Lswarfieldmusic: that hideous strength by c.s. lewis in his usual polished prose, the author creates an elaborate satiric picture of a war between morality and devilry.
• Wombat389: aeschliman on c. s. lewis, scientism, and the restoration of man
• Societycatho: 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

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