Quotes About Moral

The perfect philosophy of the natural kind [= the perfect physics] only staves off our ignorance a little longer; just as, perhaps, the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind [= the most perfect philosophy, in the 21st century sense of the word] serves only to show us more of how ignorant we are. So both kinds of philosophy eventually lead us to a view of human blindness and weakness—a view that confronts us at every turn despite our attempts to get away from it.

Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

the moral leadership of the Papacy is conditioned by considerations of opportunism and expedience.

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.

Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, "As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.

And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder? --- It's not the same, Cain mutters. --- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Oh God, make me good, but not yet.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.