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 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.

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.