C. S. Lewis Moral Quotations

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

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

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

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

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 soft.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.