The Weight of Glory is a compilation of sermons written by C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis was an intellectual giant of his time and is a beloved Christian apologist whose writings and arguments still ring true today. C.S. Lewis’s writing is worth sharing, so here are some of my favorite quotes from his book, The Weight of Glory.
C.S. Lewis Quotes
“For it must be true, as an old writer says, that he who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
“The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses, shall actually survive that examination, shall find approval, shall please God.”
“…to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son – it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”
“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
“For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will be open at last.”
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“Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.” “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.”
“Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.”
“It was not for societies or states that Christ died, but for men.”
“Neither the individual nor the community as popular thought understands them can inherit eternal life, neither the natural self, nor the collective mass, but a new creature.”
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
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