Saturday, April 23, 2011

"Ravished By A Moral Beauty"

The Order of the Divine Mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. [Therefore] what should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life? His “delight” is in those statutes (16); to study them is like finding treasure (14); they affect him like music, are his “songs” (54); they taste like honey (103); they are better than silver and gold (72). As one’s eyes are more and more opened, one sees more and more in them, and it excites wonder (18)...it is the language of a man ravished by a moral beauty.

C.S. Lewis