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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
— Aristotle
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
— RC Sproul
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
— St. Basil
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
— Zig Ziglar
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
— Harry S. Truman
Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.
— Joyce Meyer
If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.
— Marianne Williamson
we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.
— Mark Driscoll
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
— Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
— Mark Twain
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain