Drinda’s Reviews > Mere Christianity > Status Update

"If a thing is free to be good. It is also free to be bad. And Free. Will is what made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free? Will? ... Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently he thought it was worth the risk."

Lots of thoughts brewing on this.

"You can find out more about God from the moral law than from the universe in general, just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation then looking at a house he has built."

"There is one thing, and only one, in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. That one thing is man. We do not merely observe men, we are men. In this case. We have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know."

"The moral law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts."