C. S. Lewis on Humility, Gratitude and True Greatness

„A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.“

Clive Staples LewisC. S. Lewis reflects on humility, gratitude and the significance of ordinary acts from a Christian perspective.
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Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish writer and literary scholar. He taught at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and held the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

C. S. Lewis places ordinary acts marked by humility and gratitude above cultural learning when it is shaped by pride.


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C. S. Lewis quote about humility, gratitude, and true greatness

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was an Anglo-Irish writer, literary scholar, and theologian. He is renowned for his works of Christian apologetics and 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. Lewis taught literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later at the University of Cambridge. His influence extends to modern fantasy literature and Christian philosophy.

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"The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature." Theodore Dalrymple
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