Born in Belfast, C.S. Lewis was one of the most influential Christian writers of his day and made significant contributions to popular theology as well as children's and fantasy literature. During his lifetime he wrote more than 30 books, including the highly acclaimed The Chronicles of Narnia, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. Lewis was appointed to the position of Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford and served there for 29 years. A one time devout atheist, he credits friend J.R.R. Tolkien for his conversion to Christianity. In fact, he and Tolkien often discussed theology at the Eagle & Child, a pub near Oxford. He completed his academic career at Cambridge as Chairman of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
The Influential C. S. Lewis and His Quotes
Clive Staples Lewis commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis is being called by his family and friends to his pet name "Jack". He was born at the Belfast, Ireland, on 29 November 1898. His father was Albert James Lewis and his mother was Florence Augusta Lewis known as Flora. He had an elder brother named Warren Hamilton Lewis. C. S. Lewis experienced sort of agony because of the death of his dog Jacksie when he is still four years old. Because of that, he announced that he wants to be called as "Jacksie". Later he accepted being called by his pet name which is "Jack". When he was seven, his family together with him moved into "Little Lea", the family home of his childhood, in the Strandtown area of East Belfast.
C. S. Lewis is like the other ordinary boys too. He experiences irresistible influence with anthropomorphic animals, falling in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and often writing and exemplifying his own animal stories. Clive Staples Lewis likes to read. He is being supported by his father, and his father filled their house a lot of books to satisfy the habits of their children. His brother Warnie together with him created the world of Boxen, colonized and run by animals. C. S. Lewis was educated by private tutors before being conveyed to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1908, just after his mother Flora died from cancer. His brother Warnie had enrolled there three years beforehand.
C. S. Lewis then be presented at Campbell College in the east of Belfast about a mile from his home, but he was gone after the minority months due to respiratory problems. He was then sent to the health-resort town of Malvern, Worcestershire, where he attended the preparatory school Cherbourg House, which then Clive Staples Lewis calls "Chartres" in his autobiography. At this time Clive dump his Christian Faith and turn out to be an atheist, becoming fascinated in mythology and to the occult. Clive registered at Malvern College; he established the school with other people. After his departure from Malvern he studied confidentially with William T. Kirkpatrick, an old tutor of his father and a former headmaster of Lurgan College.
Clive Staples Lewis grew to love nature and to felt the love of nature; it reminds him of the stories of the North, and the beauty of the North reminds him of the nature. Clive is very fascinated of the nature, animals and everything in his surroundings. Writing poems and even writing stories is his hobby. He improved his writing talent and began his new-found arts in different form and was attracted to the Norse mythology and the natural world. Truly his mind works intelligently, besides, he is a scholar of the University College in Oxford, grind his talent in debating and reasoning and also he was tagged "The Great Knock" by the people there.
Clive's Famous Quotes
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." This is one of the quotes C. S. Lewis had done, of all the quote C. S. Lewis have made, no doubt people likes him for people can relate to his works and extended his talent to everyone. "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." All people have experienced love, for love make a boy became a genuine man.
C. S. Lewis returned to Christianity at the age of 32, becoming "ordinary layman of a Christian Church in England", his renovation to Christian life had a thoughtful effect on his works, in his arts and wartime radio broadcasts on the matter of Christianity brought him wide applause. Clive felt in love with Joy Gresham, a writer and an American lady. They got married and live each day happy. Unfortunately, his wife died at the age of 45 because of a cancer. Clive Staples Lewis also died three years after his wife passed away (22 November 1963). He serves and lives 64 years in this world. His death was negligible for media men covered his funeral and burial. That the same day, John F. Kennedy was slaughtered, U.S. President at that time, and also that the same day author Aldous Huxley died.
The Chronicles of Narnia - this book is the most popular, the best, influential, finest book he ever made. Teenagers, adults, kids love to read this book, if not the book, the story behind it that people will regret not to watch this in the cinema or at the television. The 2005 film edition of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was based on the first episode of the Narnia series. Film adaptations have been completed of two previous books he wrote: Prince Caspian (released on 16 May 2008) and The Voyage of the Dawn Trader (released on 2 December 2010). A silver screen version of The Great Divorce is attacked for liberate in 2011. And also, Clive Lewis is marked as a core character in the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica succession by James A. Owen. Truly he is one of the best artists in this world; he is one of the inspirations of writers nowadays.
The Legacy Continues
Clive Lewis died but his legacy continued, actually he is ranked as "the eleventh Greatest British Writer since 1945" among 50 writers included names in 2008. He continues to spread his readership to this industry. Booklovers of his fiction are habitually unconscious of what Lewis measured the Christian themes of his works. His Christian apologetics are read and quoted by members of many Christian denominations (Pratt 1998). God stimulates us in many traditions. To obtain closer to Him, we make use of means of transport such as creed. Christianity is solitary of such transportation. Unity with the ultimate organism with these Christian quotes which Clive Lewis inspires us. These Christian quotes made by C. S. Lewis will inform us what it funds to be a right Christian. Discover our motivations to show the way to holy life with classes of Christ in your spirit through the quotes made by Clive Staples Lewis.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it." Lovely and very realistic quote from him, he influences many Christian people who follow God and discovering the magic within.
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"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." Tagged by Clive Staples Lewis to his Christian friends and family, he really wants people to listen and awaken the people to know how far they can serve and how far their faith to GOD.
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