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

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

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A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

This anthology compiles a selection of C. S. Lewis's writings, offering insights into his thoughts on faith, morality, and the nature of human existence. The collection includes a range of essays and lectures that showcase Lewis's intellectual depth and his ability to engage with complex ideas in accessible ways. more

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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was a British novelist, academic, and Christian theologian. He is renowned for his fictional works, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of fantasy novels that have become a beloved classic of children's literature. Lewis also penned adult fiction, including the science fiction trilogy Out of the Silent Planet and the space trilogy. His non-fiction works, such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, have had a significant impact on Christian thought and spirituality. more

“The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.”

People Thinking Two Ideas Different Real Facts Morality Standards Independent Compare Two Things Admitting

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“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 friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.”

Firsts Humans Reality Seems Running Natural Moral Morality Machines Interfere Strain Inclination Breakdown Friction

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

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

Moral Teacher Morality Introducing Really Great Crank Quacks Shirk

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.”

Ifs Men Character Action Moral Morality Agents Incapable Free Man Moral Character Moral Action

Book:Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

“No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.”

Wells Doe Government Law Individual Nations Moral Judging Morality Capacity Universal Supreme Innocent Moral Law Universal Laws Amenable

Book:Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration

Source: Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration

“The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.”

Government Law Individual Nations Views Moral Support Morality Moral Law

Book:Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford

“The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.”

Humans Government Law Human Beings Moral Principles Support Morality Obligation Moral Law

Book:Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures

Source: Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures

“It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.”

States Morality Forbidden

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.”

Matter Wall Immigration Agents Illegal Illegal Immigration

Author:Gail Collins

“False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.”

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