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Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
— Alister E. McGrath
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
— Alister E. McGrath
If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
— Alister E. McGrath
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
— Alister E. McGrath
Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either.
— Alister E. McGrath
A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.
— Alister E. McGrath
We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
— Alister E. McGrath
All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are.
— Alister E. McGrath
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
— Alister E. McGrath
Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.
— Alister E. McGrath
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.
— Alister E. McGrath
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
— Alister E. McGrath
Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
— Alister E. McGrath
Later Protestant writers would refer to this as the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae - the "article by which the church stands or falls.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
— Alister E. McGrath
We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.
— Alister E. McGrath
Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
— Alister E. McGrath
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
— Alister E. McGrath
For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.
— Alister E. McGrath
For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
— Alister E. McGrath
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
— Alister E. McGrath
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
— Alister E. McGrath
Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.
— Alister E. McGrath
New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
— Alister E. McGrath
They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower.
— Alister E. McGrath
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath
Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
— Alister E. McGrath