It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
