Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.
C.S. Lewis left his childhood Christian faith to spend years as a determined atheist. After finally admitting God existed, Lewis gave in and knelt in prayer to become what he described later as “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
Lewis’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularized on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. His works entered the public domain in 2014 in countries where copyright expires 50 years after the death of the creator, such as Canada.
Here are some inspirational quotes by C.S. Lewis:-
1.ON SOMEDAY
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
2.ON BELIEVE
“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.”
3.ON CHILDREN
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
4.ON EXPLANATION
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
5.ON GOD
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
6.ON FRIENDSHIP
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
7.ON PLEASURE
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
8.ON IMAGINE
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
9.ON SURPRISE
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
10.ON BOOK
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
