Clive Staples Lewis was a scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature who taught at Oxford and Cambridge — and became one of the most widely read writers of the twentieth century.
His range was extraordinary: the beloved Chronicles of Narnia; the sharp wit of The Screwtape Letters; the clear reasoning of Mere Christianity; the hard honesty of The Problem of Pain and A Grief Observed. Few writers have brought rigorous argument and vivid imagination together so completely.
Lewis returns, again and again, to hope — to the conviction that the present life is not the whole story, that courage is virtue at its testing point, and that the best things are always still ahead. His is a steadying voice for anyone taking the long view.
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.”