![]() ![]() “…it is also necessary to keep a very sharp look-out for fear our liking for some one person makes us uncharitable, or even unfair, to someone else. (b) However, affection can be an obstacle to charity It is, therefore, normally a duty to encourage our affections – to “like” people as much as we can (just as it is often our duty to encourage our liking for exercise or wholesome food) – not because this liking is itself the virtue of charity, but because it is a help to it” “Natural liking or affection for people makes it easier to be “charitable” towards them. In the same way Christian Love (or Charity) for our neighbours is quite a different thing from liking or affection” “I pointed out in the chapter on Forgiveness that our love for ourselves does not mean that we like ourselves. ![]() ![]() It is a state not of the feelings but of the will that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people” Originally it had a much wider meaning… Charity means “Love, in the Christian sense.” But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. ![]() “‘Charity’ now means simply what used to be called ‘alms’ – that is, giving to the poor. “Charity” has a broader meaning than its current usage. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity”… Notes & Quotesġ. ![]()
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