moral direction Quotes

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

You will never go wrong obeying God.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

Our power will be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers; we are builders.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

Make of yourself a light.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

I got a little advice for everybody: marry the girl who's going to get you to heaven.

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.