Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find out one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you love someone, you will presently come to love him. - C.S. Lewis
Almost all people at all times have agreed (in theory) that human beings ought to honest and kind and helpful to one another. But though it is natural to begin with all that, if our thinking about morality stops there, we might just as well not have thought at all. continued...
If by some strange magic, the amazing amount of rhetoric surrounding current events suddenly and drastically decreases after November, we all need to seek out our neighbors, apologize and refuse to allow ourselves to be manipulated again.
Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses. - C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn, and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. – C. S. Lewis