 When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. Topics: Marriage, Love |
| Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful. Topics: Mercy, Justice
Source: The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment |
| Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control. Topics: Miracles, Salvation, Resurrection |
| Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. Topics: Miracles |
| Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. Topics: Miracles, Nature |
| The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. Topics: Morality |
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| 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. Topics: Morality
Source: The Abolition of Man |
| 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 objective values, we perish. Topics: Morality, Believing, Freedom |
| Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. Topics: Morality, Happiness
Source: English Literature in the 16th Century |
| Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. Topics: Morality
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. Topics: Morality
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| 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. Topics: Morality |
