For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I'm not Catholic, but I have a great deal of respect for Pope John Paul. I think that he has stood firm… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.' — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth. — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow. — African Spir Copy Share Image
The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance. — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image