“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 had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.”

“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.”

“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.”

“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”

“... With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged by the disparate claims of other life-orders (Lebensordnungen)... a polytheistic and dis...”

“Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.”

“Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”