Sunday, May 1, 2011

The language of the Glory of God

"Use the magnificence of 'not-God', to capture something of God..." ~John Piper

"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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