NICE PEOPLE

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) professor and author wrote:

‘Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice, we should have saved their souls. 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.”
(From: ‘Mere Christianity’ 1952)

Niceness is now being replaced by mindfulness, kindness and gratefulness. These terms are very much attributes I would like to have and hope others would …and should. If these are not important to us… we are probably really not a very desirable person or neighbor.

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus