Tim Keller paraphrasing a quote from C S Lewis 'The Weight of Glory'
"The inconsolable secret within each one of us, the secret that hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like nostalgia, or romanticism or adolescence – that is our lifelong longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we all feel now cut off; the longing to be on the inside of some door that we have always seen from the outside. That inconsolable longing, that secret, is no mere neurotic fantasy but it's the truest index of our real situation. The sense that in this universe we are strangers; the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality is part of our inconsolable secret.
It's a longing to please God, to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness, to be loved by God – not just pitied – but delighted in as an artist delights in his work. Acceptance by God, acknowledged by Him, welcomed into the heart of things – then the door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last."
For the full text of C S Lewis' original sermon look here.
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