Best may & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Firsts May Problem Sin Simple Poor Moral Rich Economics Envy Driven Remedy Consumerism Consumed Consuming Discontent Simple Living

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“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.”

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”

Source: Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula

“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.”

Men May Facts Law Certain Enjoy Moral Ethics Universal Statements Code Conformity Nature Of Man True Freedom Moral Law Moral Code

Book:Mind of the Maker

Source: Mind of the Maker

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.”

Way May Doe Peace Growth Moral Materials Comfort Increase Materialism Material Possessions Moral Growth

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.”

Ifs World May Suffering Culture Grows Moral Periods Civilization Roots Drag Degradation Deterioration

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts May Made Soul Matter Use Evil Sin Acting Moral Figures Judging Personality Guilt Committed Contrary Welcome Rejection Touched Infamy Power Of Thought

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.”

Men Should May Eye Form Science Moral Sun Plans Youth Taught Brother Hero Mass Rose Temples Atoms Organs Tenderness Sage Worms Restless Enlightening Morrow Poisonous Scientific Truth

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.”

People Humans May Reason Hate Numbers Race Moral Intellectual Cat Human Race Divided Considering

Book:The Fireside Sphinx

Source: The Fireside Sphinx

“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”

“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Wells May Humanity Existence Moral Cost Survival Consequence Privilege Preserves Serving Warning Holocaust Frightening License

Book:Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Source: Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

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

“It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.”

Thinking Knows Should Humans Heart May Heaven Human Beings Moral Hell Strange Creatures Disease Breasts Human Heart

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“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.”

“The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.”

Men May Spiritual Grows Process Moral Creatures Tasks Aim Regions Everlasting Diligence Serene

Author:Meister Eckhart

“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.”

“Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.”

World Wells May Mean Facts Fall Views Moral Doubt Materials Blessing Point Of View Contribution Chips Objectivity Doubting Everything

Author:Aldo Leopold

“You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.”

Giving May Father Religious Moral Holy Blessing Curse

Book:The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Source: The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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