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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Love
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book I, Chapter 5, “We Have Cause to Be Uneasy”
- God
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love, Chapter 7
- Science
When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Whenever you find a man who says he doesn’t believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Case for Christianity
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Christmas
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299
I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
- Education
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
- Power
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 66, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936A Short History of England (1917)
- Freedom
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
- Good & Evil
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allenborn 1935
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity