Nov 2023: Letters to Malcolm: 17-22

In November 2023, we continue our discussion of Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer. Our focus will be Letters 17-22. Here’s a excerpt from Letter 17, paragraph 13:

We—or at least I—shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have “tasted and seen.” Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are “patches of Godlight” in the woods of our experience.

Arend Smilde's Lewisiana site has helpful notes for quotations and allusions in Letters to Malcolm.

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