Character Quote by Tullian Tchividjian

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality;…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

— Karl Jaspers

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

— Vernon Howard

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is being moral,…

— Abhijit Naskar

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of…

— Milan Kundera

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.…

— Judith Martin

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

— A. N. Wilson

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing…

— Allan Bloom

“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live.…

— Timothy Keller

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Innocence could be lost more than once after all.”

— Selena Kitt