Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinit…

C. S. Lewis
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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. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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