Quotes about Morality
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
— Jerry Bridges
But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.
— Jerry Bridges
our innate tendency to think our country is always right. We assume that God will bless our side with victory. The Bible does not support such a view. In fact, according to biblical history, God sometimes uses an evil nation to punish another one, then in turn punishes the first nation for its sin.
— Jerry Bridges
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
— Jerry Falwell
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
— Jerry Falwell
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
— Jerry Falwell
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
— Jerry Falwell
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
— Jesse Jackson
You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
— Ernest Hemingway
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.
— Ernest Hemingway
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
— Ernest Hemingway
Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
— Ernest Hemingway