“Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.”

“Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.”

“Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.”

“Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.”

“Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.”

“Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.”

“I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond ...”

“Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Conte...”

“Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.”

“She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those ...”

“We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love.”

“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”

“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”