He [CS Lewis] has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue, and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened me for me the wisdom of the ages. To this day, I get most of my soul food from centuries ago. I thank God for Lewis’ compelling demonstration of the obvious.

He demonstrated for me and convinced me that rigorous, precise, penetrating logic is not opposed to deep, soul-stirring feeling and vivid, lively, even playful, imagination. He was a romantic rationalist. -John Piper