Amy Wheeler - the loudest beating heart.. (roaring_rory) wrote, @ 2009-09-24 09:51:00

#1134
Starting reading another collection of C.S. Lewis essays this morning, and just had a few quotes I wanted to share. I have to say, I'm so glad to be done reading Max Lucado and back to C.S. Lewis. That was a long haul.

From 'Christianity and Literature':

... an author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and wisdom.

And;

The real frivolity, the solemn vacuity, is all with those who make literature a self-existent thing to be valued for its own sake.

As with most Lewis essays, I found a lot to think about in this one. I definitely prefer the essay format to the devotional format. Maybe it's because Lewis likes getting people to think about things and re-evaluate things and to question what they take for granted, whereas Lucado just wants to get you thinking about God. Well, I already do that.

In conclusion: good stuff.

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