Moral Quotes - Page 6

• If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Finals, Standards, Absolutes

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west”

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• God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Doe, Flesh

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• Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.

  William Damon

  Attitude, Educational, Priorities

  William Damon (2014). “Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society”, p.3, Hoover Institution Press

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• Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Vices, Virtue, Dressings

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• It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, People, Victory

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (M., François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.218

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• Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.

  Star Parker

  School, Kids, Fighting

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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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• The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

  Seth Klarman

  Mother, Believe, Men

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Culture

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• Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

  Russell Kirk

  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.

  John Banville

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

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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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• Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.

  Max Anders

  Fall, Pride, Mercy Of God

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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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• We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

  Timothy Keller

  Judging, Preference, Standards

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• The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Blind Spots, Understanding, Principles

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• The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Children, Thinking, Race

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• Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

  John Nolte

  Hero, Target, Innocent

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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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• 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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• What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Father

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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• I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Art, Civilization, Political

  Murray Newton Rothbard, Leonard P. Liggio (1975). “"Salutary neglect": the American colonies in the first half of the 18th century”, Crown

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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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