C.S. Lewis
On Allowing the Film of Life to Unroll
Now he had come to a part of the wood where great globes of yellow fruit hung from the trees… He picked one of them and turned it over and over… He had meant to extract the smallest, experimental sip, but the first taste put his caution all to flight. It was, of course, a […]
Heaven and Hell and The Great Divorce
—from the preface of The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks […]
“…if this is the best this marvelous man can think of as an argument against [the Catholic Church], then I’m all for it.”
—Below are excerpts of a letter from H. Lyman Stebbins to C.S. Lewis (found in the online article Correspondence between C.S. Lewis and H. Lyman Stebbins) June 16, 1945 Dear Mr. Lewis, It is not possible to describe the gratitude I feel for your trouble and interest in answering my inquiry…. + On the three […]
Out of the Silent Planet: “Never less alone” with C.S. Lewis and John Henry Newman (and a Book Review)
Perhaps the best comment is in the author whom I mentioned to you: “For as it was well said of the great Africanus that he was never less alone than when alone, so, in our philosophy, no parts of this universal frame are less to be called solitarie than those which the vulgar esteem most […]
Who is Father Christmas?
—from Journey Into Narnia by Kathryn Lindskoog, Part II: Exploring the Narnian Chronicles [C.S.] Lewis’s good friend Roger Lancelyn Green strongly advised him to remove Father Christmas from the story [The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe], but he didn’t. This part of the story was important to Lewis. He gave each of the three […]
Lust vs. Love, Pt. 2: Pleasure Alone Is Not Enough
C.S Lewis says: For me the real evil of masturbation [would] be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back: sends the man back into the […]
To Do the Works of Martha In the Spirit of Mary
Very few people are good at doing two or more things at once, especially contemplating and acting, praying and working, Mary-ing and Martha-ing at the same time. But de Cassaude shows you how to do just that, to unite Mary and Martha, to do the works of Martha in the spirit of Mary. He does […]
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