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{{quote | text=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... ''Words of C.S. Lewis''}}
[[Image:C.S. Lewis.jpg|thumb|C.S. Lewis]]
''Synopsis:'' Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C.S. Lewis, was a famous [[Christian]] author and scholar mostly resident who lived in [[England]]. Lewis is especially known for his work on medieval literature and for his Christian apologetics and fiction, especially the children's series entitled [[The Chronicles of Narnia]].
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==Main article==
Lewis died on November 22, 1963, at the [[Oxford]] home he shared with his brother, Warnie. He is buried in the [[Headington Quarry Churchyard]], Oxford, England. Media coverage of his death was overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day.
==Quotes==
''Is Theology Poetry'' - C.S. Lewis
: 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.
[[The Problem of Pain]] - C.S. Lewis
: Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
[[The Screwtape Letters]] - C.S. Lewis
: There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
[[The Great Divorce]] - C.S. Lewis
: There have been men before... who got so interested in proving the existance of [[God]] that they came to care nothing for God himself... as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading [[Christianity]] that they never gave a thought to [[Christ]].
[[Mere Christianity (book)|Mere Christianity]] - C.S. Lewis
: 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 [[Jesus: Our Lord and God|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 be either a lunatic - on a 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
The World's Last Night - C.S. Lewis
: The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
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