“the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Yes, our world is real, but its temporal reality offers us but a glimpse, a faint foreshadowing of the greater reality that… — Louis A. Markos Foreshadowing Copy Share Image
“No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they… — Louis A. Markos Beliefs Copy Share Image
“Yes, Lewis concludes, God may at times treat us harshly, but he has never treated us with contempt.” — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J.R.R. Tolkien) children’s literature and fantasy… — Louis A. Markos Friendship Copy Share Image
“Lewis was no fan of war, but he was unashamed to champion the beauty of the knight, of the medieval Crusader, of… — Louis A. Markos Beauty Copy Share Image
“The success of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings helped restore the reputation of these discredited… — Louis A. Markos Hobbit Copy Share Image
“We are half-hearted creatures,” writes Lewis, “fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an… — Louis A. Markos Children Copy Share Image
“reducing human love, joy, religion, and art to a product of unconscious urges, or economic forces, or the struggle for survival and… — Louis A. Markos Art Copy Share Image
“Hell is a state of mind . . . And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the… — Louis A. Markos Hell Copy Share Image
“Actually, if truth be told, love and unselfishness are also received in a radically different way by the object of the proffered… — Louis A. Markos Generosity Copy Share Image
“Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: “You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will… — Louis A. Markos Books Copy Share Image
“Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices… — Louis A. Markos Character Copy Share Image
“And that is why Lewis concludes that we can shut Jesus up as a lunatic, kill him as a devil, or fall… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Narnia, held captive by the “post-Christian” Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat… — Louis A. Markos Elves Copy Share Image
“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.” The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the… — Louis A. Markos Middle ages Copy Share Image
