Philip Zaleski Quotes

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

~ Philip Zaleski

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven… In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.

~ Philip Zaleski

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate X but to make life with X an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.

~ Philip Zaleski

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

~ Philip Zaleski

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

~ Philip Zaleski

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

~ Philip Zaleski

Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.

~ Philip Zaleski

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

~ Philip Zaleski

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

~ Philip Zaleski

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

~ Philip Zaleski

The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

~ Philip Zaleski

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

~ Philip Zaleski

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

~ Philip Zaleski

Charles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.

~ Philip Zaleski

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism, he pushed at its borders.

~ Philip Zaleski

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

~ Philip Zaleski