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• Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

  George Whitefield

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• 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.

  George Washington

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• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

  Socrates

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• Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

  Timothy Radcliffe

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• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

  George Combe

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• Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

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  Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  Garrett Hardin

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  Tags in Fundamentalists, Certainty, Morality

• The thought of my mortality – I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number’s up.

  Sara Blakely

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• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

  Vidal Sassoon

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• Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

  Roy Hattersley

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• But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

  James Baldwin

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• Conventionality is not morality.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

  Roland Allen

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• If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

  Roger Penrose

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• As for morality, well that’s all tied up with the question of consciousness.

  Roger Penrose

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• The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

  D. H. Lawrence

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• There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  D. H. Lawrence

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