Yancey again on Chesterton, Orthodoxy, xiii:
"Chesterton viewed this world as a sort of cosmic shipwreck. A person's search for meaning resembles a sailor who awakens from a deep sleep and discovers treasure strewn about, relics from a civilisation he can barely remember. One by one he picks up the relics - gold coins, a compass, fine clothing - and tries to discern their meaning. Fallen humanity is in such a state. Good things on earth - the natural world, beauty, love, joy - still bear traces of their original purpose, but amnesia mars the image of God in us."
(if not amnesia, darkened hearts - Romans 1:21)
