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The Weight of Glory

Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Praise and Worship

I have never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Creation Myths

I suspect that many people assume that some clear doctrine of creation underlies all religions: that in Paganism the gods, or one of the gods, usually created ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on God’s Self-Existence

As we have seen, even in the creation-myths, gods have beginnings. Most of them have fathers and mothers; often we know their birthplaces. There is no question ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Imitating Christ

What is near Him by likeness is never, by that fact alone, going to be any nearer. But nearness of approach is, by definition, increasing ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Immanence

Up till now each visitation of Joy had left the common world momentarily a desert. “The first touch of the earth went nigh to kill.” Even when ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Joy or Sehnsucht

The first is itself the memory of a memory. As I stood beside a flowering currant bush on a summer day there suddenly arose in me without ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on a Distant Voice

But then, and quite different from such pleasures, and like a voice from far more distant regions, there came a moment when I idly turned the pages ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Desire

That walk I now remembered. It seemed to me that I had tasted heaven then. If only such a moment could return! But what I never ... » Go

C.S. Lewis on Chronological Snobbery

Here were gods, spirits, afterlife and pre-existence, initiates, occult knowledge, meditation. “Why — damn it — it’s medieval,” I exclaimed; for I still had all ... » Go