Moral Quotes - Page 23

• In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.

  Unknown

  Christian, Country, Integrity

  Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by John H. George and Paul Boller, pp. 26-27, 1989.

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• A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Law, Land, Doe

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1979). “If I am assassinated ...”, Advent Books Division Inc

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• You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Assuming, Framework

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2015

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• Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Character, Order, Discipline

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• Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Simple, House, Support

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

  Max Anders

  Errors, Risk, Doctrine

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• Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Law, Trying

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2015

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• The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

  Timothy Keller

  Long, Doe, Definitions

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• Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

  Russell D. Moore

  Vulnerable, Cowardice, Expenses

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• For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Motivation, Compassion, Effort

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• Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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• Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Principles, Plight

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• I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.

  Cal Thomas

  Government, People, Giving

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Spiritual, Eye

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

  Tom Stoppard

  Issues, Kind, Endless

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel. God will judge the unreached on the basis of their response to His self-revelation in nature and conscience. The Bible says that from the created order alone, all persons can know that a Creator God exists and that God has implanted His moral law in the hearts of all persons so that they are held morally accountable to God (Rom. 1.20; 2.14-15). The Bible promises salvation to anyone who responds affirmatively to this self-revelation of God

  William Lane Craig

  Heart, Law, Creator God

  "Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?". The Craig-Bradley Debate in Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, www.reasonablefaith.org. January 1994.

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• Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, People, Intellectual

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• Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

  Charlie Munger

  Next Steps, Easy, Ends

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• We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

  Charlie Munger

  Perfect, Culture, Prison

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

  Charlie Munger

  Teacher, Drinking, School

  Charlie Munger's comments on economic matters at the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Men, Layers

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• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

  Gary Ross

  People, Confusion, Example

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.

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• You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

  Roque Dalton

  Eye, Men, Judging

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• ... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

  Charles Colson

  Spiritual, Ideas, Intellectual

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