Lewis on goodness
Posted: January 12th, 2009, 6:34 pm
Does anyone know of a particular essay or chapter in which Lewis speaks of goodness being more interesting than badness? He seems to have this view that goodness is like a big, full tree with an almost infinite amount of limbs, branches, and leaves, while badness is like a little broken stick on the ground. In other words, goodness is rich and varied and exciting and interesting, and badness is uniform, bland, and dull.
Even if you can only think of a chapter or passage in one of his fiction works I would appreciate it. All I can think of is a line here or there, like the end of Mere Christianity when he says that sameness is to be found most among the most natural of men, or in A Grief Observed when he responds to the thought that a malevolent God might be behind the universe by saying that that kind of God couldn't even make a joke, much less the universe with its sunsets, stars, and stalagmites.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Even if you can only think of a chapter or passage in one of his fiction works I would appreciate it. All I can think of is a line here or there, like the end of Mere Christianity when he says that sameness is to be found most among the most natural of men, or in A Grief Observed when he responds to the thought that a malevolent God might be behind the universe by saying that that kind of God couldn't even make a joke, much less the universe with its sunsets, stars, and stalagmites.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?