CS Lewis… There are no ordinary people
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal , and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with , work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in sprite 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 neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden. CS Lewis, The Weight Of Glory.
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Chris, you beat me to the punch on this one. I just read this a few days ago. Excellent quote! How much we have to learn from these great thinkers.
Maybe you noticed, I’ve posted some of your blog posts on my Facebook profile.
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare…
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CS Lewis…or Jack, as I call him (but never to his face – I’ll have to wait for that )
Becka,
Amazing… “the dullest and most uninteresting person you may talk to” may be…. Thank God that includes me.
Love ya,
hang in there
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