This, I think, more than anything else, is what gives Lewis a powerful Christian voice:

"It took me as long to acquire inhibitions as others (they say) have taken to get rid of them. That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans."

-----C.S. Lewis, "Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life"