 Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. It is the damning hypocrisy of this age that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| No books are so legible as the lives of men; no character so plain as their moral conduct. Author: James H. Aughey |
| Heat water to the highest degree, you cannot make wine of it; it is water still; so, let morality be raised to the highest, it is nature still; it is old Adam put in a better dress. Author: Thomas Watson |
| the character of the world is morally different from the Spirit-imparted life we have received from God. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality. Author: William Wilberforce |
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| If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society. Author: William Wilberforce |
| There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that -- they are utter failures. Author: Wendy Wright |
| The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world. Author: Chuck Colson |
| The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. Author: Jimmy Swaggart |
| Pure morality points you to the purest one of all. When impure, it points you to yourself. The purer your habits, the closer to God you will come. Moralizing from impure motives takes you away from God. Author: Ravi Zacharias |
| Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. Author: Vance Havner |
