“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — 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
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — 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
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
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
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — 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
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities… — 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
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
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the… — 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
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it,… — 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
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
“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image