C. S. Lewis Quotes about Morality

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

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

Teacher, Morality, Introducing

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.77, HarperCollins UK

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.

C. S. Lewis

Law, Nails, Morality

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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

C. S. Lewis

Reality, Morality, Pretending

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.

C. S. Lewis

Taken, Burden Of Proof, Morality

C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.59, TellerBooks