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Moral Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in…
- The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
- There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not…
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a…
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
- We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of…
- It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
- In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
- The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
- Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
- If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is…
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
- You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man…
- A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
- Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
- The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
- Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend…
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When…
- If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those…
- There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does…
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac