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

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.

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.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

But I regret not having liked history.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.