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AsaYounts: "Hurrah!" said Corin. " I shan't have to be King. I'll always be a prince. It's princes have all the fun. " THE HORSE AND HIS BOY Clive Staples Lewis THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA Book Three 1954

kipkenyan: Clive Staples Lewis shared that “if I find something in myself that cannot be satisfied in this world, then I know I was made for another world.” How might that apply to your thought below?

duma_lupe: "Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity." ~ Clive Staples Lewis

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QcDailyQuote: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most opp...

AlyssaKayeB: I heard some *takes* about Jack Clive Staples Lewis today while following objects with my eyes!

Seb_Melmouth: I have the displeasure of informing you that the 'C.S' in C. S Lewis stands for Clive Staples.

LaSeletzky: Big fan of Clive Staples Lewis, I must say

ADailyLift: We are what we believe we are. - Clive Staples Lewis

AhmadGoheer: "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are ... and change the ending". ~CS Lewis / Unknown (This quote gets widely credited to the famous British writer and theologian, Clive Staples Lewis, but has been fact checked and found not to be his)

usera49: "One day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again." -Clive Staples Lewis You will soon understand...

Zsazsazsull: “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again”. -Clive Staples Lewis Now I totally understand this quote.

yitagesuambaye: IF I FIND IN MYSELF A DESIRE WHICH NO EXPERIENCE IN THIS WORLD CAN SATISFY, THE MOST PROBABLE EXPLANATION IS THAT I WAS MADE FOR ANOTHER WORLD. C. S. LEWIS CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS, (C. S. LEWIS) 29 NOVEMBER 1898 – 22 NOVEMBER 1963 BRITISH WRITER AND ANGLICAN LAY THEOLOGIAN.

Jonnybgbold: Clive Staples Lewis would’ve written an entire chapter in the Great Divorce on politicians like her, parading around like a “Christian”, but being a power hungry douche.

catehall: TIL the CS in CS Lewis stands for Clive Staples Feels so wrong

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Citizen__Kay: Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst. - Clive Staples Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms.

brantleee: "The Church will outlive the universe; in it the individual person will outlive the universe. Everything that is joined to the immortal head will share His immortality." - Clive Staples Lewis

MRobles1996: Written by THE Clive Staples Lewis himself lol

ViraArmstrong: Clive Staples Lewis, FBA (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).

ChristynaUnless: Bold words from a man named Clive Staples Lewis

liammotterrr: About to talk about Clive, Staples, and Lewis wish me luck

surefoundation7: 5/5 Clive Staples Lewis ,born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) on November 29, 1898,.. the most famous atheist-turned-Christian of the 20th century.

MelissaMWear: This Orange Boi is 8 years old. Happy Birthday, Clive Staples Lewis!

realdanbradley: Both quotes are from the works of the same man. What changed? Grace broke in. Grace took root. And so everything changed. His name was Clive Staples Lewis.

starvinggods: also recently found out that the "C.S." in C.S. Lewis stands for Clive Staples??????

KleinRevd: those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." "There is no tyranny so great as that which is practiced for the benefit of the victim" Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) /3

mongsley: On November 29, 1898, Albert and Florence Lewis became the parents of a young, somewhat healthy baby. They chose to give the baby boy the name Clive Staples Lewis, but everyone liked to call him Jack. He was born in Belfast, Ireland.

AsaYounts: "Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW Clive Staples Lewis 1955

RTB_KSamples: Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) The creator of Narnia

soejoonpark: Eventide + future; minutes; whoever— Clive Staples Lewis

rgbneves: Whatever is not eternal is eternally out of date. —Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)

RonaldBuxton5: One of the greatest quotes (of the many) from Clive Staples Lewis!

doogilla: When human souls have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. Clive Staples Lewis

j_with_the_pen: I prefer “As the ever-convincing Clive Staples Lewis—who insisted on being referred to as ‘Jack’—penned…”

DrJohnNS: If I were reduced to reading just two theologians then without doubt they would be St Augustine of Hippo, and Clive Staples Lewis. Great men of the 1st and 2nd millennium.

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Rhys_Needham: For those who didn't know, Clive Staples Lewis, also died the same day as JFK - and Aldous Huxley.

disabledmystic: some more delightful cs lewis trivia: I shit you not the s stands for staples. his name is clive staples lewis

ferchinchin: ❝MENTAL PAIN is less dramatic than PHYSICAL PAIN, but it is more COMMON and also HARDER to BEAR. The frequent attempt to HIDE mental pain INCREASES the load: it is easier to say 'My tooth hurts' than to say 'My HEART is BROKEN'❞. ⭐ Clive Staples Lewis - 'The Problem of Pain'

_1_c_s_: “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” Clive Staples Lewis

AvrahamGoldste3: "The Palestinian Story" brought them more money than all the Harry Potter stories brought to Joanne Rowling and the Chronicles of Narnia brought to Clive Staples Lewis.

sheisbukola: Have you read MERE CHRISTIANITY by Clive Staples Lewis?? Say hi, let's talk about it. It's a good read. Best believe.

sheisbukola: That's why He wouldn't give you that which you pine for. He knows you can't handle it. It will wreck you. His love for us is deeper. Clive Staples Lewis in his book 'mere christianity' described how christianity is deeper than we can ever imagine&we barely scratch the surface.

KingstonBooks: Our 'Quote of the Week' is from Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. 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.

KrisDeichler: I appreciate the constant test of my Christian beliefs as the more I do the more certain I become. As the wonderful Clive Staples (CS) Lewis said: "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."

jaideallyce: CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS everything makes sense now i too would hate women if my mother had named me clive staples

rtalantis1: Mantra for the day… “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” Clive Staples Lewis

TheySayTh1ngs: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian.

Elipho2022: "To love is to be vulnerable" (Clive Staples Lewis) Painting by Peter Wever ( Contemporary German painter, b.1944)

VickyPlush: Quote of the Day There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. —Clive Staples Lewis

Qualia2020: te amo clive staples lewis

playdisc788: the last great battle is between our goodness and our greatness so said clive staples lewis

CASBT_OSINT_UA: 1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Clive Staples Lewis. 1951 - "Catcher in the Rye" by Jerome Salinger.

GraemePeacock1: It’s a little known literary fact that when Clive Staples Lewis reached his Narnia epiphany inspiration he was actually stood freezing his bol*ocks off in minus 16 degree temperatures somewhere in deepest Northumberland :)

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lopsius: We laugh at honor and then are surprised to find traitors in our midst. - Clive Staples Lewis

IMAGINEzine: Clive Staples Lewis said: “IMAGINATION IS the organ of meaning.” John Guare believed: “IMAGINATION IS the passport we create to take us into the real world,” that “IMAGINATION IS another phrase for what is most uniquely us."

kingduncan42: Sometimes I think of that bit in The Last Battle where Jill is whispering so they won't be overheard and caught and it says she says "thee better" instead of "see better" because the sibilant S is more likely to be heard and what exactly was Clive Staples Lewis preparing us for

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aovmz: The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. — Clive Staples (C. S.) Lewis.

GabedannyMoreno: “The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. – (Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis”

AsaYounts: I was like water put into a bottle and left in a cellar: utterly motionless, never to be drunk, poured out, spilled, or shaken. The days were endless. The very shadows seemed nailed to the ground as if the sun no longer moved. TILL WE HAVE FACES Clive Staples Lewis 1956

GabedannyMoreno: “[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centerdness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that. – (Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis”

GabedannyMoreno: “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn, and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. – (Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis”

Maraaaks: "You are never too old to set yourself a goal another goal or to dream another dream." Clive Staples Lewis

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JakeRainwater: Grover Cleveland Alexander going by “Pete” has big Clive Staples Lewis going by “Jack” energy

DedicatioQuotes: Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ~ Clive Staples Lewis

KAlanSnyder: Did you know that the Episcopal Church in 2003 created the Feast of Clive Staples Lewis? You can find out about it in my 3rd-most-liked Lewis post of the year.

KrisAtLarge: Clive Staples Lewis. it's quite the name isn't it—one can see why he insisted on being called Jack, because it was simpler. (we know another Jack, ourselves—they're a good kid, if a little...stabby. and we know yet another Jack, who once went to Caltech, as I did.) ~Chara

aovmz: "If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity." — Clive Staples (C. S.) Lewis.

J_Coriolanus: Clive "Theobro" Staples Lewis.

ADailyLift: Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. - Clive Staples Lewis

ADailyLift: Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. - Clive Staples Lewis

ampi_villatoro: My two favorite people are called Lewis Lewis Capaldi vs Clive Staples Lewis

bryceraley: Need to get back to reading more Clive Staples Lewis for the depth.

Kansasguy1961: Today is the birthday of writer Clive Staples (“C.S.”) Lewis, who was born in 1898 and died 22 November, 1963.

MattFriedeman: Happy birthday, Clive Staples! Your favorite C.S. Lewis work? November 29, 1898: Christian writer and scholar C.S. Lewis, one of modern Christianity's best-loved writers, is born in Belfast, Ireland.

PapillonNoir73: Happy Birthday C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis, privat auch Jack genannt; * 29. November 1898 in Belfast; 22. November 1963 in Oxford)!

ModernLibrary: Clive Staples Lewis, born November 29, 1898 "I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz."

MusingsOnChrist: Born this day in 1898, “Jack” became an atheist engrossed in pagan mysticism, northern mythology, and human imagination. After conversations with fellow Oxford don JRR Tolkien, Clive Staples Lewis converted to Christ. His Christian witness as a novelist and apologist was winsome.

judsontaylor: Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. As a toddler, Clive declared that his name was Jack, which is what he was called by family and friends. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

edpearce080759: British academic and writer Clive Staples Lewis (better known as CS Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. A hand carved wardrobe in his childhood home became the inspiration for The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe.

pauljimerson: Lewis was born Clive Staples Lewis in Belfast (1898). His mother died when he was young & he spent much of his time at boarding school, where his headmaster wielded a cane & admonished students to “Think!” Lewis & his brother created a special world called “Boxen,”

vitheundead: every so often i remember C.S Lewis' name was actually CLIVE STAPLES and i pity Eustace a little bit more

FXMC1957: 29 November 1898. Clive Staples (“CS”) Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He’s best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy. He died on the same day as John F Kennedy in 1963.

LogoSimian: Larry Coreia. Bruce Burns. Travis Corcoran. Johnny Hart. John C. Wright. L. Jagi Lamplighter. Tim Lim. John Ronald Ruel Tolkien. Clive Staples Lewis. Alexander Hellene. E. Darwin Hartshorn. Just off the top of my head.

tinyyheartsstae: i will leave my religious trauma AT THE DOOR for mr. clive staples lewis

Tymon1965: "Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?" ~ Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963)

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ADailyLift: Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - Clive Staples Lewis

anglicanspb: The Collect (TEC) for Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and Spiritual Writer, 1963

benwardmusic: From Morning Prayer for today... "O God of searing truth and surpassing beauty, we give you thanks for Clive Staples Lewis, whose sanctified imagination lights fires of faith in young and old alike..."

BobSands: On this date in history, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. However, one hour before that one of the greatest thinkers and writers of our time also passed away. His name? Clive Staples Lewis aka, C.S. Lewis author of the Chronicles of Narnia.

cdnusboy: For CS Lewis: O God of searing truth and surpassing beauty, we give thee thanks for Clive Staples Lewis whose sanctified imagination lighteth fires of faith in young and old alike; Surprise us also with thy joy and draw us into that new and abundant life...

ianrees66: On the Episcopal calendar, November 22 is the feast of Blessed Clive Staples Lewis. He was originally an avowed atheist, but he was converted to Christianity and became an Anglican. He is considered by many to have been the greatest Christian writer of the 20th century.

EastSideVC: Today marks the 59th anniversary of the passing of C.S.Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis is one of the truly international literary figures, Born in 1898 and brought up in east Belfast, Lewis was arguably one of the most innovative and influential writers of his time.

BrettLandry: NOV 22, 1963: Today is the 59th anniversary of the death of Clive Staples Lewis. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

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