Recall the Saunterer’s previous post which began, “You would think that religions would support preserving great spaces of wilderness. Wilderness (and not the cities) is where the sublime can be found, and the sublime promotes belief in God.” We then quoted Thomas Gray. Now we quote C. S. Lewis:
Many people - I am one myself - would never, but for what nature does to us, have had any content to put into the words we must use in confessing our faith. 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. And if nature had never awakened certain longings in me, huge areas of what I can now mean by the “love” of God would never, so far as I can see, have existed. (Quoted in The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 317)
For a short biography of C. S. Lewis, click here.
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