Men Quote by Robert South Download Open image “No man's religion ever survives his morals.” — Robert South ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Moral Religion
It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life. — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion. — Kane Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being… — Robert South Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion… — Robert South Copy Share Image
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. — Robert South Copy Share Image
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image