The great philosopher C. S. Lewis once wrote: “They say of some temporal suffering‚ ‘No future bliss can make up for it‚’ not knowing that Heaven‚ once attained‚ will work backwards and turn even that agony into glory” (Keller 34). How can agony and suffering be turned into glory? Suffering is a term that is closely related to the concepts of evil and pain. The verb‚ suffer‚ means to undergo or endure. Suffering is linked with the experience of anguish or misery in which humans are aware of the
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almost this very reasoning that has left humanity wondering about this higher being called God‚ chiefly because there must be something that is able to transcend even the capabilities of even the most intellectual creatures on this planet. As C.S Lewis says in his Abolition of Man‚ “At the moment‚ then of Man’s victory over Nature‚ we find the whole human race
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“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies‚ let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker” (C.S. Lewis). We need heroes to stand out and help when needed or called to action. Heroes should be people that all cultures/people all over the world can look up to and have a good example no matter how bad their life is. A hero puts others before himself‚ loves to give back and not take‚ and one who stands
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Just like a woman’s body nourishes her children‚ beauty nourishes the soul. C.S. Lewis said it this way‚ "We do not want merely to see beauty‚ though‚ God knows‚ even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be United with the beauty we see‚ to pass into it‚ to receive into ourselves." (The
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The Wicked Ways of the White Witch: How Evil is Evident in Jadis‚ the “Queen” of Narnia It was once said that “evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree” (“Ethiopian”). In C. S. Lewis’ The Lion‚ the Witch‚ and the Wardrobe‚ evil enters the fictitious world of Narnia and quickly diffuses throughout the land. This evil permeates every aspect of its society and has its inhabitants living in fear of the source: Jadis‚ “Queen” of Narnia‚ better known as the White Witch. She is
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C. S. Lewis comes across to many Christians and non-Christians readers as a writer whose purpose is to make others contemplate what is beyond nature. In this particular case of “On Living in an Atomic Age‚” Lewis writes to numerous audiences to proves that nature is not “the only thing in existence” (Lewis 75). He believes that there is ‘another world’ beyond nature. Before Lewis gets to this part of the essay he goes on to explain what nature is in its truest form. Lewis makes it clear that nature
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The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis’s first book of the Chronicles of Narnia introduces the reader to the land of Narnia. Written in the 1950’s Lewis’s inspiration to write a children story stemmed from the arrival of three children evacuated to the Lewis country home during the bombing of London by the Nazi. Within unfolding story C.S. Lewis provides childlike insights into philosophies of faith‚ compassion‚ temptation‚ redemption and
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C.S. Lewis’ descriptions of heaven and hell in the book The Great Divorce are mainly metaphorical‚ as he wants to illustrate the fundamental differences between the two places that we have all grown up knowing about. To do this he uses the typical illustrations such as light and dark‚ sunrise and sunset‚ and mountains and valleys‚ or deep ravines. However‚ I think many things that are spoken about in the book are very similar to the actual places. Several differences are the people‚ the weather and
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C.S. Lewis lived from 1898 to 1963. During his lifetime‚ he wrote over thirty books. One of his most popular books is Mere Christianity. Mere Christianity is broken up into four books ranging from twenty-five to seventy-five pages. Content for each of the books came from a series of radio broadcasts between 1942 and 1944. They read like a conversation instead of an essay. In Book One‚ C.S. Lewis seeks to explain the Law of Human Nature. He says that everyone appeals to some kind of standard of behavior
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The beginning of the book The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis was difficult to understand and hard to figure out‚ but as you read on‚ you come to find out that this book is about heaven and hell and the people that go there. The narrator who is the main character in the book tells the story on what he sees from his eyes. The author describes hell as a dark cold town with alleys that people live in and no one to be seen on the streets‚ and heaven as this place that looks beautiful with green grass‚ mountains
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