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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Kindness, Love Is
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

C. S. Lewis
Kindness, Giving, Feelings
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

C. S. Lewis
Kindness, Records, Definitions
C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.20, Harper Collins

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

C. S. Lewis
Hurt, Kindness, Real

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Kindness, Generosity
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

C. S. Lewis
Kindness, Definitions, God Is Love
C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.23, Harper Collins

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

C. S. Lewis
Kindness, Animal, People
C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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