The Weight of Glory

My favorite essay. The Weight of Glory is the title of C.S. Lewis' famous sermon that he preached in the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on June 8, 1941. Walter Hooper has it right: it is "an incomparable explication of virtue, goodness, desire, and glory." Lewis maintained that though Christianity is sometimes difficult to understand, it is worth fighting for and, in the second quote, argues for the supremacy of God's thoughts.

If our religion (Christianity) is something objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know.

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except insofar as it is related to how He thinks of us.

C.S. Lewis