I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.
You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.
Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner. "It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
