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Louis A. Markos QUOTES

1 " Narnia, held captive by the “post-Christian” Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber. "

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2 " In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis. "

― Louis A. Markos , From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

3 " The eyes of faith are not always bright. At times they can see only dim shadows, like rough shapes reflected in a worn and dusty mirror. Yet even then, especially then, the faithful are called to trust in the promises of old and to believe that the time and place of their birth are no accident. For faith sees not only that history is meaningful, that it is going someplace, but also understands its own limited role within that history. "

― Louis A. Markos

4 " the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with. "

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5 " Were we not all created in God's image, and though we are all fallen from our original state, does not a spark of divine fire remain in each of us? "

― Louis A. Markos , From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

6 " Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive.  Had Lewis lived today, I think he would have said that the reigning virtue is not unselfishness but tolerance—a pseudo-virtue that also manifests itself, not in active charity, but in a negative acquiescence to the “rights” of others. "

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7 " For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. (Acts 17:26-28) "

― Louis A. Markos , From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

8 " The Witch's conception of what Narnia should be like is similar to what Sauron desires for Middle-earth (and what Satan desires for our own world) : a barren landscape devoid of life peopled by joyless automatons who neither laugh nor take pleasure in anything. It is Satan, not Christ who is the cosmic killjoy. "

― Louis A. Markos , On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis

9 " For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. (Robert Jastrow, astronomer) "

― Louis A. Markos , Apologetics For The Twenty First Century

10 " Lewis was no fan of war, but he was unashamed to champion the beauty of the knight, of the medieval Crusader, of the “Christian in arms for the defense of a good cause. "

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11 " reducing human love, joy, religion, and art to a product of unconscious urges, or economic forces, or the struggle for survival and reproduction, the theories of Freud, Marx, and Darwin have emptied humanity of its freedom, its dignity, and its purpose. "

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12 " Thomistic synthesis. "

― Louis A. Markos , From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

13 " Hell is a state of mind . . .  And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind—is, in the end, Hell.  But Heaven is not a state of mind.  Heaven is reality itself. "

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14 " Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J. R. R. Tolkien) children’s literature and fantasy novels as serious genres deserving serious consideration. "

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15 " You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters; "

― Louis A. Markos , From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

16 " Actually, if truth be told, love and unselfishness are also received in a radically different way by the object of the proffered charity.  In the former case, the recipient is assured that another human being cares deeply about him; in the latter, he feel manipulated and used. "

― Louis A. Markos ,

17 " The success of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings helped restore the reputation of these discredited genres, thus enabling moderns to draw on their innocent wisdom. "

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18 " In Dublin in 1852, Newman delivered a series of nine discourses intended to set the tone for a proposed Catholic university in Ireland. These discourses represent, to my mind, the finest modern attempt to unite the twin legacies of Athens and Jerusalem. Though the university was never built, the discourses were published as The Idea of a University, and in this form they continue to beckon believers in the Christian revelation to consider the legacy of the ancients. "

― Louis A. Markos , From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

19 " Behind Boromir's testimony lurks something else that our modern world is desperately in need of: a sense that we live in a meaningful universe where nothing is accidental and where an overruling providence moves things forward in accordance with a higher plan. This promises as well that history is not merely a succession of unrelated events ("one darn thing after another"), but that it too is imbued with meaning, purpose, and direction. And if both the universe and history are meaningful, then perhaps we are as well. "

― Louis A. Markos , On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis

20 " And that is why Lewis concludes that we can shut Jesus up as a lunatic, kill him as a devil, or fall at his feet in worship—but “let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to. "

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