The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven… — Wayne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Postmodern people have been rejecting Christianity for years, thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
To be naked or even making love in a scene to me is very important if this is a movie about a… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
“The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image