From a Letter.
“My feeling about people in whose conversion I have been allowed to play a part is always mixed with awe and even fear; such as a boy might feel on first being allowed to fire a rifle. The disproportion between his puny finger on the trigger and the thunder and lightening wh. follow is alarming. And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.” – C.S. Lewis, in a letter to Sheldon Vanauken
Sheldon Vanauken (author of “A Severe Mercy”)
“The fact that he, like Peter and Lew at Oxford, was a physicist and a Christian led me to formulate a theory as to why so many physicists – I knew of still others – were committed Christians. The theory went like this: The non-scientists say, “Well, we don’t know the answers but the scientists do; and the scientists who are not physicists say, well, we don’t know the answers either, but the physicists do; and the physicists know that they do not, in fact, have the ultimate answers and, accordingly, turn to Christ, who does.” page 129 of “A Severe Mercy”
Another C.S. Lewis Quote
“…our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
~ The Weight of Glory
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