They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
Douglas GreshamTags: classic narnia c-s-lewis
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
C.S. LewisTags: c-s-lewis
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. LewisTags: inspirational god human religious slavery c-s-lewis mere-christianity
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
C.S. LewisTags: writing writing-craft c-s-lewis till-we-have-faces
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
C.S. LewisTags: reepicheep c-s-lewis prince-caspian
this is a book about something
C.S. LewisTags: fantasy christian narnia aslan c-s-lewis digory magician-s-nephew polly
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity
C.S. LewisTags: theology c-s-lewis mere-christianity
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
C.S. LewisTags: literature quote c-s-lewis
Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
C.S. LewisTags: philosophy c-s-lewis
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
C.S. LewisTags: life religion afterlife living play c-s-lewis
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