{"id":702,"date":"2010-08-28T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2010\/08\/the-inspiration-of-cs-lewis.html"},"modified":"2010-08-28T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:43:16","slug":"the-inspiration-of-cs-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2010\/08\/the-inspiration-of-cs-lewis.html","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiration of C.S. Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Since I leave for Oxford on Monday, I felt that reading a few inspirational quotes from C.S. Lewis to start a Saturday was fitting. I&#8217;ll also by at Magdalen College mentioned in this first quote. Lots of pictures to come, I promise!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.&#8221; &#8211;&nbsp;<i>Surprised by Joy<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal\"><b><br \/><\/b>&#8220;Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . .&#8221; &#8211;<i>Mere Christianity<\/i>&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, you&#8217;re real, you&#8217;re real! Oh, Aslan!&#8221; cried Lucy and both girls flung themselves upon him and covered him with kisses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what does it all mean?&#8221; asked Susan when they were somewhat calmer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means,&#8221; said Aslan, &#8220;that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor&#8217;s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/em>, p. 132<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I leave for Oxford on Monday, I felt that reading a few inspirational quotes from C.S. Lewis to start a Saturday was fitting. I&#8217;ll also by at Magdalen College mentioned in this first quote. 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