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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and read more
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we read more
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea read more
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age read more
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
