Planet Narnia Quotes

“No doubt chivalry is a failure, but it is not such a failure as pacifism. Wars (even just wars) inevitably involve evil, but not so much evil as is involved in passively allowing aggressors to have their way.”
― Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

“However politically desirable a republic might be, it remains unable to compete imaginatively with monarchy because monarchy in principle more completely mirrors the nature of divine authority. One of the great imaginative advantages of the genre of fairy-tale or romance is to allow for the presentation of such a principle. In fairy-tale the author can leave behind the shallows of the ‘realistic’ novel, and is free to show the reader something better than mundane norms. What might it be like if human kings really did exhibit perfect kingship? The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe attempts an answer.”
― Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

“It is through hearing about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings… that children learn or mislearn what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.’2”
― Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

“As is proper in romance, the inner meaning is carefully hidden.”
― Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

“Since God is the Father of lights, even the dim and guttering lights of paganism could be ascribed ultimately to Him. Christians should feel no obligation to quench the smouldering flax burning in pagan myths: on the contrary, they should do their best to fan it into flame.”
― Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis