You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Sin is geographical.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.