Luther and Lewis

Therefore to God alone belongs that sort of seeing that looks into the depths with their need and misery, and is near to all that are in the depths; as Peter says “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” And this is the source of men’s love and praise of God.—Martin Luther, Magnificat, AE 21:300

If all the cultural values, on the way up to Christianity, were dim antepasts and ectypes of the truth, we can recognize them as such still. And since we must rest and play, where can we do it better than here—in the suburbs of Jerusalem? It is lawful to rest our eyes in the moonlight—especially now that we know where it comes from, that it is only sunlight at second hand.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 223.