"...But you and I must be clear. There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. And the higher and mightier it is in the natural order, the more demoniac it will be if it rebels. It's not out of bad mice or bad fleas you make demons, but out of bad archangels. The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion."

C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce
Chapter 11 - a discussion on the "natural" holiness of some affections.

"...You cannot take all luggage on all journeys; on one journey even your right hand and your right eye may be among the things you have to leave behind."


C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce

It should be noted that the exhortations on the New Testament call us to conformity with Christ, not with the law of Moses. It is striking that the Ten Commandments are not set forth as the standard of Christian conduct. This is a vexed topic, about which there is much difference of opinion. Perhaps there is a way to recognize a distinction between God's lawful rule of his kingdom and the law of Sinai. The latter was a temporary expression sited to that period of revelation. Since Christ has come, we are no longer under that expression kingdom rule because Christ is the perfect revelation of it (Rom 6:14; Gal 3:21-25). In the light of Christ we see that some aspects of the Sinai law have enduring validity yet we are free from the total rule of the law.

Graeme Goldworth
According to Plan, p. 222

Lewis on Compassion and Emotional Blackmail

'Son, son, it must be one way or the other. Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. I know it has a grand sound to say ye'll accept no salvation which leaves even on creature in the dark outside. But watch that sophistry or ye'll make a Dog in a Manger the tyrant of the universe.'

'But dare one say--it is horrible to say--that Pity must ever die?'

'Ye must distinguish. The action of Pity will live for ever: but the passion of Pity will not. The passion of Pity, the Pity we merely suffer, the ache that draws men to concede what should not be conceded and to flatter when they should speak truth, the pity that has cheated many a woman out of her virginity and many a statesman out of his honesty--that will die. It was used as a weapon by bad men against good ones: their weapon will be broken.'

'And what is the other kind -- the action?'

'It's a weapon on the other side. It leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured:  but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.'

C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce
Chapter 13

What does the Bible say about income inequality

http://blog.tifwe.org/what-does-the-bible-say-about-income-inequality/

Income inequality, as we have been discussing, is a fact of economic life. People are born with different gifts, they choose to pursue them differently, and they value those gifts differently. As such, our gifts carry unequal earthly rewards, one of which is in the form of income. The market is an earthly construct which can dole out only earthly rewards.

The looming question is whether this economic reality is necessarily unbiblical. To best understand this, we need to go to scripture on two fundamental points: the distribution of gifts and abilities; and examples of God’s earthly rewards for stewardship within the context of market exchange. We’ll discuss the first today.

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All of this comes down to the fact that each individual is born with unique skills and abilities. Our work on earth, pursued with a true understanding of how God has called us to use those gifts—our purpose—can further His Kingdom

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It’s not just what we are endowed with, it’s how we use what we have been given. What we are given refers to abilities, gifts and talents. As we are all created in God’s image, we are all given different degrees, types and combinations of talents.