“My own eyes are not enough for me” by C.S. Lewis
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may...
View Article“Those who read great works” by C.S. Lewis
“In the first place, the majority never read anything twice. The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers ‘I’ve read it already’ to be a conclusive argument against reading a work. We have...
View Article“Reading well is listening well” by C.S. Lewis
“If we take literature in the widest sense, so as to include the literature both of knowledge and of power, the question, ‘What is the good of reading what anyone writes?’ is very like the question...
View Article“Sacred things may become profane by becoming matters of the job” by C.S. Lewis
“To Sheldon Vanauken Magdalen College, Oxford January 5, 1951 Dear Mr. Van Auken, We must ask three questions about the probable effect of changing your research subject to something more theological....
View Article“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve” by C.S. Lewis
“Do you mark all this well, King Caspian?” “I do indeed, Sir,” said Caspian. “I was wishing that I came of a more honorable lineage.” “You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that...
View Article“A circle of Christian friends by a good fire” by C.S. Lewis
“Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?” –C.S. Lewis, Letters of C.S. Lewis, eds. W.H. Lewis and Walter Hooper (New York: Harper, 1966), 467. C.S. Lewis was...
View Article“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one” by C.S. Lewis
“My Dear Wormwood, A few weeks ago you had to tempt your patient to unreality and inattention in his prayers: but now you will find him opening his arms to you and almost begging you to distract his...
View Article“A pointer to something other and outer” by C.S. Lewis
“But what, in conclusion, of Joy? For that, after all, is what the story has mainly been about. To tell you the truth, the subject has lost nearly all interest for me since I became a Christian. I...
View Article“Keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds” by...
“Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. And I would give...
View Article“He does not find, but makes her, lovely” by C.S. Lewis
“The Church has no beauty but what the Bridegroom gives her; He does not find, but makes her, lovely.” –C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1960/1988), 105.The post “He...
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