Status Updates From The Weight of Glory

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” -Pg 182

“…the value of the individual does not lie in him. He is capable of receiving value. He receives it by union with Christ.” -Pg 174

Not sure how much I agree. I think we have a degree of value but I’m not really sure. Maybe we have value but Christ gives us worth?

“If there is equality, it is in [God’s] love, not in us.”
-Pg 170

He also gives a fantastic analogy:

In the waking world, you can understand dreams, but in dreams, you cannot understand the waking world. It is the same way with Christianity and science.

“I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -Pg 140

Ahhhhh my two favorite CS quotes are in this essay collection.

“If…i [accept] the scientific cosmology as a whole, then not only can I not fit in Christianity, but I cannot even fit in science. If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any significance.” -Pg 139

“To call [war] useless because it did not also cure slums and unemployment is like coming up to a man who has just succeeded in defending himself from a man-eating tiger and saying, ‘It’s no good, old chap. This hasn’t really cured your rheumatism!’” -Pg 74

“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.” -Pg 58

“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the gospels, it would seem that our Lord find our desires not too strong, but too weak.” -Pg 26

“[Today, people think the highest virtue is unselfishness.] The negative idea of unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of love.”
-Pg 25