Do you know this quote?

by mereme at 05/05/07 4:50PM
I came across this thoughtful Lewis quote in a blog somewhere online, and thought it sounded familiar. Does anyone recognise it, or know from where it was quoted?

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C.S. Lewis once stated this profound thought: “The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not IN them, it only came THROUGH them, and what came through them was longing. These things-the beauty, the memory of our own past- are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune which we have not heard, news from a country we have not visited.”
  • memento_mori
    I looked it up, and I believe it came from "The Weight of Glory" which can be found here: http://www.doxaweb.com/assets/doxa.pdf (Sorry, I don't know how to make it a tidy link.) It might have come from somewhere else, too.
    by memento_mori at 05/05/07 4:55PM
  • mereme
    here is the pdf link, "tidy" ;) Thank you so much!
    by mereme at 05/05/07 5:06PM