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Quotes About Moral effects

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
~ Charles Sturt
God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.
~ John Piper
Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.
~ Edmund Burke
sé concebir qué moralidad puede resultar de sus efectos. Ceder a la fuerza es un acto de necesidad y no de voluntad; cuando más es un acto de prudencia.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau