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May 13, 2008

C. S. Lewis on "Mere Mortals"

I have seen the following quote from C. S. Lewis several times and have wanted to quote it in a sermon several times and it seems that each time I need it I can't find it.  It looks like my problem may have been solved - it's my buddy Adrian Warnock to the rescue.  This is a great quote to contemplate when thinking about your fellow image bearers.

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 strongly be tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

— C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, HarperOne, pp. 14-15.

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