Love Joy Quotes by Louis A. Markos

“Narnia, held captive by the “post-Christian” Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine…

— Louis A. Markos

“And that is why Lewis concludes that we can shut Jesus up as a lunatic, kill him as a devil, or fall at his…

— Louis A. Markos

“the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with.”

— Louis A. Markos

“Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive. …

— Louis A. Markos

“reducing human love, joy, religion, and art to a product of unconscious urges, or economic forces, or the struggle for survival and reproduction, the…

— Louis A. Markos

“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.”  The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the thought of…

— Louis A. Markos

“We are half-hearted creatures,” writes Lewis, “fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child…

— Louis A. Markos

“Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: “You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that…

— Louis A. Markos

“Lewis was no fan of war, but he was unashamed to champion the beauty of the knight, of the medieval Crusader, of the “Christian…

— Louis A. Markos

“Yes, Lewis concludes, God may at times treat us harshly, but he has never treated us with contempt.”

— Louis A. Markos

“No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they exist only…

— Louis A. Markos

“Actually, if truth be told, love and unselfishness are also received in a radically different way by the object of the proffered charity.  In…

— Louis A. Markos