Morality

Miracles 5.9 "Morality //is// an illusion." (position of Naturalism) which explains away moral judgements.

But the school-days, please God, are numbered. There is no morality in Heaven. The angels never knew (from within) the meaning of the word ought, and the blessed dead have long since gladly forgotten it. //Letters to Malcolm//, chapter 21, paragraph 13

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might even be more difficult to save. Mere Christianity, chapter 10, 2nd paragraph from the end

There are. . . occasions on which a mother's love for her own children or a man's love for his own country have to be suppressed or they'll lead to unfairness toward other people's children or countries. Strictly speaking, there aren't such things as good and bad impulses. Think of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the right notes and the wrong ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The moral law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. //Mere Christianity//, Book 1, chapter 2, paragraph 4

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them that won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice, you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity," and becoming in the end a treacherous man. //Mere Christianity//, Book 1, chapter 2, paragraph 5

Morality or duty...never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. //Oxford History of the English Language//, Book 2, chapter 1, section 1, paragraph 59

"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience." //The Problem of Pain//, Introductory, 6th paragraph from the end