Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Bernard of Clairvaux; translated by Edward Caswall

I am very fond of what C. S. Lewis once said about truly faithful and joyful Christians. They don’t talk about “religion,” he said. They talk about the Lord.

Now, I don’t mean, and he didn’t mean either, that religion is not a virtue, and a demand of the fully moral life, implying all our duties to God. When you go to church in Germany, you attend Got…