From Weight of Glory, by C. S. Lewis
We have in our day started getting the whole picture upside down. Starting with the doctrine that every individuality is "of infinite value," we then picture God as a kind of employment committee whose business it is to find suitable careers for souls, square holes for square pegs.
In fact, however, the value of the individual does not lie in him. He is capable of receiving value. He receives it by union with Christ.
There is no question of finding for him a place in the living temple which will do justice to his inherent value and give scope to his natural idiosyncrasy.
The place was there first. The man was created for it. He will not be himself until he is there. We shall be true and everlasting and really divine persons only in Heaven, just as we are, even now, colored bodies only in the light.
To say this is to repeat what everyone here admits already--that we are saved by grace, that in our flesh dwells no good thing, that we are, through and through, creatures not creators, derived beings, living not of ourselves but from Christ.
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