Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.