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The first address, "The Weight of Glory" is an address on the nature of glory. Lewis begins the address by reminding the reader that they are too often distracted by simple distractions of life and fail to see that something greater remains just out of view. As he makes this argument, Lewis utters his classic statement, that "it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite

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That is, until we learn that the Old Testament word for "glory" is kabod, which has a primitive root meaning "heavy." Used in a negative sense, something weighty is something burdensome. When used in a positive sense, such heaviness means wealth and honor. Weighty issues are important ones

The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses is a collection of essays and addresses on Christianity by Lewis. It was first published as a single transcribed sermon, "The Weight of Glory" in 1941, appearing in the British journal, Theology, then in pamphlet form in 1942 by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London. It was published in book form in 1949, as a compilation of five addresses, in London by Geoffrey Bles under the title Transposition and Other Addresses and in