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The Quotable Lewis

Copyright 1990 by Wayne Martindale and Jerry Root. All rights reserved.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a trademark of C. S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd.

Extracts from Cross-Examination are taken from Decision magazine, September-October 1963, copyright 1963 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Extracts from the following works are used by permission of The Bodley Head: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength .

Extracts from the following works, copyright on date shown, are reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press: The Discarded Image (1964); An Experiment in Criticism (1961); Selected Literary Essays (1969); Spensers Images of Life (1967); Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966); Studies in Words (1967).

Extracts from the following works of C. S. Lewis are reproduced by permission of William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. as publisher and copyright editor: The Abolition of Man ; Fern-Seed and Elephants and Other Essays on Christianity, edited by Walter Hooper; George MacDonald: An Anthology , by George MacDonald, edited and with introduction by C. S. Lewis; The Great Divorce ; The Horse and His Boy ; The Last Battle ; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ; The Magicians Nephew ; Mere Christianity ; Miracles ; The Pilgrims Regress ; Poems, edited by Walter Hooper; Prince Caspian ; The Problem of Pain ; The Screwtape Letters ; Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces ; The Silver Chair ; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ; The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses .

Extracts from the following works, copyright by C. S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd. on date shown, are reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown, London: The Personal Heresy (1939); God in the Dock (1970); Rehabilitations (1939); Essays Presented to Charles Williams (1947).

Extracts from the following works are reprinted by permission of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.: Christian Reflections ; Letters to an American Lady ; Taliessin Through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, Arthurian Torso .

Extracts from the following works of C. S. Lewis, and copyright by C. S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd. on date shown, are reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper (1985); The Dark Tower: And Other Stories, edited by Walter Hooper (1977); The Four Loves (1960 by Helen Joy Lewis; renewed 1988 by Arthur Owen Barfield); Letters of C. S. Lewis, edited by W. H. Lewis (1966); Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964); Narrative Poems, edited by Walter Hooper (1969); Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, edited by Walter Hooper (1966); On Stories and Other Essays on Literature, edited by Walter Hooper (1965); Poems , edited by Walter Hooper (1964); Present Concerns, edited by Walter Hooper (1986); Reflections on the Psalms (1958; renewed 1986 by Arthur Owen Barfield); Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics (1984); Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; renewed 1983 by Arthur Owen Barfield); Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1957; renewed 1985 by Arthur Owen Barfield); The Worlds Last Night and Other Essays (1960; renewed 1988 by Arthur Owen Barfield).

Extracts from the following works are reprinted by permission of Harper & Rowe, Publishers, Inc.: A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, copyright 1962 by N. W. Clerk; A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken, copyright 1977, 1980 by Sheldon Vanauken.

Extracts from the following works of C. S. Lewis, and copyright by C. S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd. on date shown, are reprinted with permission of MacMillan Publishing Company: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves, edited by Walter Hooper (1979); Letters to Children, edited by Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead (1985).

Extracts from the following works, copyright on date shown, are reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press: The Allegory of Love (1936); English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (1954); A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942).

Extracts from Letters: C. S. Lewis/Don Giovanni Calabria, copyright 1988 English language translation Martin Moynihan. Reprinted with permission of Servant Publications, P.O. Box 8617, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-50921. ISBN 978-0-8423-5115-7.

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This book is dedicated with love and affection to our wives: Nita Martindale and Claudia Root

Preface

For students, speakers, writers, and anyone who desires to contemplate great thought on a particular topic, this anthology can be put to use in several ways. You can use it for:

1. Reference. Who has not at times wished to reclaim the whole of a quote only partially remembered, forgetting even the book in which it appeared? Heres help.

2. Access. Several excerpts on a given topic are often gathered into one place, and the index points to related ideas.

3. Illustration. These excerpts help bring speeches, sermons, lectures, and papers to life. An author as quotable as Lewis is a godsend to communicators of every kind.

4. Understanding. There is enough substance in these excerpts to deepen thinking on a wide range of topics.

5. Perspective. A sense of the vast panorama of Lewiss remarkable mind emerges from even a brief survey of these selections.

6. Browsing. This Lewis anthology can fill reflective moments with pleasure and instructionnourishment for the mind, spirit, and imagination.

Several other anthologies of Lewis are in print, and their purposes vary from devotional readings to collections of quotes on specified topics. This anthology is unique for two reasons. First, comprehensiveness. It draws on all of Lewiss published work (except uncollected letters and book reviews), something never before attempted. We have tried to represent the full range of Lewiss thoughtnot just the popular or catchy phrase but the representative treatment, whenever excerptible, across the entire, varied range of his work. We have read every published book, including collections of sermons, short stories, juvenilia, articles, addresses, poems, and letterssome sixty booksto insure comprehensive coverage (see the bibliographies).

Second, organization and indexing. The table of contents lists the topics that are included, arranged alphabetically. Many excerpts are so rich and suggestive that they could logically be categorized under a half dozen topics. For space considerations, however, an excerpt is printed only once. Consult the index for additional quotations on a related topic and for any passage on the fringes of memory that you are trying to track down. Of necessity we made many judgment calls, not only for topic selection but for what to quote and how much. If one of your favorite Lewis quotes is nowhere to be found, we apologize in advance.

Whenever a topic includes multiple excerpts, we arranged the excerpts in chronological order. This may allow you to discover some development in Lewiss thoughthow an idea in bud early on opens into full flower in his later work. For example, before Lewis became a Christian he appears to have been somewhat anti-Semitic. After his conversion he developed sympathies for the Jews and was appreciative of their literature. Ultimately he married Joy Davidman Gresham, who was of Jewish heritage. (We have not attempted to hide anything; some excerpts reveal Lewiss idiosyncrasies and ideas at odds with our own belief and practice.)

You can also discover from multiple excerpts within a topic how Lewis works out a thought from genre to genre. He expressed most of his central ideas in nonfiction, fiction, letters, and sometimes poems. We were impressed anew with how mature and settled Lewiss ideas were at an early date. The soaring imagination that created Narnia and Perelandra is anchored in a unifying concept of who God is, who we are as his fallen creatures, the destiny of humankind, the need for redemption and perfection in Christ. Entry after entry reveals and amplifies this core through a range of applications. Regardless of the genre, his conservative and biblical center always holds.