| C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Convert to the Anglican Church, whose writing speaks to people of all faiths because he saw everything and everyone with a "seeing eye." |
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| "We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito... The real labor is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake. Letters to Malcolm
"To some God is discoverable everywhere: to others, nowhere. Those who do not find Him on earth are unlikely to find Him in space. But send a saint up in a spaceship and he'll find God in space as he found God on earth. Much depends on the seeing eye." The Seeing Eye "I do not see how we could have come to know the greatness of God without that hint furnished by the greatness of the material universe." God in the Dock "We do not want merely to see beauty... We want something else which can hardly be put into words -- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." The Weight of Glory "Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her. When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive. Nature is only the image, the symbol...We are summoned to pass in through Nature, beyond her, into the splendor which she fitfully reflects." The Weight of Glory |
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