Sunday, March 1, 2009

C.S. Lewis quote-of-the-week

Christian Love (or Charity) for our neighbors is quite a different thing from liking or affection. We ‘like’ or are ‘fond of’ some people, and not of others. It is important to understand that this natural ‘liking’ is neither a sin nor a virtue, any more than your likes and dislikes in food are a sin or a virtue It is just a fact. But, of course, what we do about it is either sinful or virtuous.


--Mere Christianity, book 3, ch. 9

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