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“I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.”

Thinking Giving Term Moral Aspect Catholic Fundamentals Raised Glad Code Grounding Moral Code

Author:Frances O'Connor

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?”

“A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.”

Giving Doe Spiritual Father Moral Protect Guidance Good Father Basic Things

Author:David Blankenhorn

“What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.”

Giving Facts Force Moral Birth Behavior Roots Unbelief Bad Behavior Moral Failure

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.”

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.”

“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.”

Giving Values Emotion Moral Expression Organization Weight Practicals Invention Aesthetic Arousal

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.”

Thinking Men Giving Winning Moral Victory One Man Moral Victory

Book:Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

Source: Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.”

Giving Jesus Justice Moral Judgment Boundaries Jesus Love Giving Love Moral Judgment

Author:John Shelby Spong

“We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.”

Want Giving Trying Stories Fun Views Moral Obvious Entertainment Point Of View Theme Worthwhile Public Good

Author:Walt Disney

“If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?”

Ifs Giving Desire Values Moral Produce Enjoyment Immoral Immorality

Author:John Galt

“Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.”

Giving Persons Values Loses Half Moral Relation Charity Giver Moral Values

Book:The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.”