"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one. I do not see how the “fear” of God could have ever meant to me anything but the lowest prudential efforts to be safe, if I had never seen certain ominous ravines and unapproachable crags." ("The Four Loves,"A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, ed. Clyde Kilby [New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968], 202)
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