Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...

When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.