Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
– Alister E McGrath
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- Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories. – Alister E McGrath
- Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will. – Alister E McGrath
- 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. – Alister E McGrath
- Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible. – Alister E McGrath
- Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. – Alister E McGrath
- Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way. – Alister E McGrath
- Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul’s wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. – Steve Maraboli
- All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. – George MacDonald
- Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. – Oscar Wilde
- Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated. – Patrick McGrath
- Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest. – Philip Jenkins
- Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. – Denis Diderot
- If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words. – Thomm Quackenbush
- A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought. – Karl Barth
- I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? – Ann Voskamp
- If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness. – Jurgen Moltmann
- Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. – Namsoon Kang
- Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself. – Toni Sorenson
- Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was. – Atsushi Ohkubo
- Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer’s inner vision. – Debasish Mridha
- In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours. – Ilyas Kassam
- All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love. – Alan Cohen
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter F Drucker
- Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. – Charlotte Pearson
- Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. – CS Lewis
- He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart – Seema Gupta
- I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable. – Raymond Radiguet
- that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love. – Philip Zaleski
- I am lover of words… I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words… the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. – Jennifer Hillman
- Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it. – Steve Maraboli
- Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake. – Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
- Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly. – C Kennedy
- At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom
- I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. – Gabriel Garca Mrquez