The Quotable Lewis

This book presents more than 1,500 quotes from Lewis's writings, providing ready access to his thoughts on a variety of topics. An exhaustive index references key words and concepts, allowing readers to easily find quotes on any subject of interest. Also included are many photographs of Lewis and his close circle of friends.

Quick summary:

• More than 1,500 quotes from Lewis's writings.
• Sixteen pages of photographs.
• Extensive index and numbering system.

WAYNE MARTINDALE has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is associate professor of English at Wheaton College, where he uses Lewis’s works in many of his courses.

JERRY ROOT has an M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary and is senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Santa Barbara, California. He formerly taught philosophy and religion at College of DuPage in northern Illinois, where he made extensive use of Lewis’s work. He has avidly studied and collected Lewis’s works for many years.

C. S. Lewis was famous both as a fiction writer and as a Christian thinker, and scholars sometimes divide his personality in two. Yet a large part of Lewis's appeal, for both his audiences, lay in his ability to fuse imagination with instruction. "Let the pictures tell you their own moral," he once advised writers of children's stories. "But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in."