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11. "The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union."

 

Category:Culture  

Author:C.S. Lewis

12. "Virtue---even attempted virtue---brings light; indulgence brings fog."

 

Category:Virtue  

Author:C.S. Lewis

13. "Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."

 

Category:Virtue  

Author:C.S. Lewis

14. "Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues."

 

Category:Miscellaneous Quotes  

Author:C.S. Lewis

15. "When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."

 

Category:Good and Evil  

Author:C.S. Lewis

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

 

Category:Morality  

Author:C.S. Lewis

17. "Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever."

 

Category:Immortality  

Author:C.S. Lewis

18. "You cannot make men good by law."

 

Category:Morality  

Author:C.S. Lewis

19. "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...When you are being taught how to use any machine, the instructor keeps on saying, 'No, don't do it like that,' because, of course, there are all sorts of things that look all right and seem to you the natural way of treating the machine, but do not really work."

 

Category:Morality  

Author:C.S. Lewis

20. "Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms."

 

Category:Sin  

Author:C.S. Lewis