As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Reflections on our times and C.S. Lewis’ “Learning in Wartime.” …”The death of our illusions, then, isn’t meant to paralyze us but to re-shape us into the people who know how to weep and how to groan and how to point to a different sort of kingdom.
“There is a double surprise in store for Aeschliman’s readers. It is alarming to learn how the rise and growth of a scientific culture has been linked with the most blatant subjectivism. It is a joy to be introduced to the ‘great central tradition’ of witnesses to the true meaning of words and defenders of human reason.” - National Review
“Como’s unlikely achievement is to deliver a brief (under 200 pages) yet compelling literary survey of Lewis’s works, which include over 40 books, 200 essays, 150 poems, short stories, a diary, and three volumes of letters.” - National Review
“[A]s C.S. Lewis argues in this essay, the humanitarian theory of punishment deprives a person of the ‘rights of a human being.’ And when deterrence is the sole goal of the system then even the punishment of the innocent is warranted since it can have a deterrent effect.” - Acton
“Today’s atheists insist that religion and Christianity are necessary because they provide the emotional crutch for difficult times. But Lewis’ journey provides a different picture. Who do you think is right?” - Intellectual Takeout
“I do not think that equality is one of those things (like wisdom or happiness) which are good simply in themselves and for their own sakes…” - Acton (Video)
“This video illustrates the essay Lewis published in 1940 during the Battle of Britain, and three days before Churchill’s famous “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” speech” - Acton
“…the pleasure of pleasing someone I respected greatly whom it was my God-given duty to please. I had not been pandering. I hadn’t done the work primarily to please him, or I wouldn’t have pleased him; but when I did, and when he named the reason specifically—what a God-given joy.” - Mark Ward
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