Goodness Quotes by C. S. Lewis

11 Goodness quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis often wove moral insight into his prose. This compact set of eleven quotations captures his reflections on goodness, providing a quick taste of his philosophical and spiritual musings.

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God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be…

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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

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Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to…

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Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself:…

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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For…

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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made…

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Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you…

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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want…

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... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and…

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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