Born in 1898 – C. S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic.

From Lewis’s 1956 novel, Till We Have Faces:

“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”

Above: Detail of the cover image of the 1980 edition of Till We Have Faces.