Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Surprised by Joy. It is the story of his early life and his slow conversion to Christianity. Lewis describes his childhood in Ireland, his difficult school days, his time in the army during the First World War, and his years as an atheist and later as a theist at Oxford. He explains the mysterious experience he calls Joy, a deep longing that no earthly thing could satisfy. The book shows how this longing, good books, and honest reason led him step by step toward God. Lewis became a Christian in 1931. He writes with great honesty about his pride and resistance. The book came out in 1955. It helps readers understand how faith can grow through the mind as well as the heart. Favourite quote You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. What I Loved Surprised by Joy gives an open and…