C. S. Lewis Quotes About Glory

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Real, Son

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The sense that in this universe we are treated as 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. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant 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 open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

• Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, Glory

• Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

• Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Majesty, Way, Taught

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Each Day, Becoming

• When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

  C. S. Lewis

  Should Have, Perfect, Firsts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.43, Harper Collins

• The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Mean, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Beer

• That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

  C. S. Lewis

  Agony, Knowing, Heaven

• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

• In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Men, Order

• For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mind, Lasts, Glory

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

• And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Cost, Deeds

• Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

  C. S. Lewis

  Agony, Heaven, Glory

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