C. S. Lewis Quotes

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Governing the people's affairs is one of the greatest religious obligations.

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to prevent it and to damn the consequences.

Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.

There's a world to save. Don't let anybody tell you you can't change the world. You can, and you have a moral responsibility to try.

Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals.

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

The world is God’s salvation.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

God put laws into being - we put them into motion.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.