Moral Quotes by C. S. Lewis

23 Moral quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis brings a storyteller’s nuance to ethical questions, using imagination to probe the heart of right and wrong. Across 23 excerpts you’ll sense his blend of wit, faith, and reason guiding readers toward a thoughtful moral compass.

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The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not…

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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

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The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

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The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

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If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience…

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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more…

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We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect…

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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a…

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Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in…

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Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral…

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and…

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In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our…

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To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,…

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally…

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better…

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Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental…

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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.…

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One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

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There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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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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