February 26
"All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. Christianity does not simply replace our natural life and substitute a new one; it is rather a new organization which exploits, to its own supernatural ends, these natural materials." ~CS Lewis, "Learning in war-time", p54
February 25
Since we are in university pursuing learning this quote seems quite appropriate. Lewis addresses the problem of studying at the university while the war is raging in Europe. "….every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the question raised by the war are relatively unimportant. He must ask himself how it is right, or even psychologically possible, for creatures who are every moment advancing either to Heaven or hell to spend any fraction of the little time allowed them in this world on such comparative trivialities as literature or art, mathematics or biology." CS Lewis, "Learning in War-time", p48
February 24
"Nature never taught men 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 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" CS Lewis, The Four Loves, p20
– Couple comments for further thought… Does this connect with Romans 1 (particularly v 18-20)? Secondly – his comment about 'awakening certain longings' does this refer to the Joy he speaks of in this autobiography Surprised by Joy
