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Christian morality Quote by Rod Dreher

““Though Donald Trump won the presidency in part with the strong support of Catholics and Evangelicals, the idea that someone as robustly vulgar, fiercely combative, and morally compromised as Trump will be an avatar for the restoration of Christian morality and social unity is beyond delusional. He is not a solution to the problem of America’s cultural decline, but a symptom of it. The””

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“To love requires loving others and letting others love you.”

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“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the…

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“With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms,…

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“The overweight person diets not to punish him- or herself for being heavy but to become healthier. The athlete works out not because he…

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“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.”

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“For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is what theologian…

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If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those…

“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. He argued that the West has abandoned reason and the tradition of the virtues in giving itself over to the relativism that is now flooding our world today. We are governed not by faith, or by reason,…

“It is not feasible for most of us to abandon the Internet entirely. But at the very least we can impose on ourselves a discipline similar to the Benedictine monks, who, observing the Rule, strictly limit themselves to particular tasks during certain hours. We can also do more things with our hands. Put that way, it sounds almost childish, but…

“Father Martin said that those who think stability is meant to hold you back, and to stifle personal and spiritual growth, are missing the hidden value in the commitment to stability. It anchors you and gives you the freedom that comes from not being subject to the wind, the waves, and the currents of daily life. It creates the ordered…

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

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As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands…

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In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

George Washington

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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

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“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s spiritual health and posterity. God knew that if these Canaanite children were allowed to live, they would spell the undoing of Israel. The killing of the Canaanite children not only served to prevent assimilation to Canaanite…

William Lane Craig

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that…

Arthur Schopenhauer

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

Thomas Jefferson

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“it was much less dangerous for the disciples of Christ to neglect the observance of the moral duties, than to despise the censures and…

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

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Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

George Washington

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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without…

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Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality… I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that…

Rachel Griffiths

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