Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

Church history has repeatedly and clearly proven one thing: Once the highest view of Scripture is abandoned by any theologian, group, denomination, or church, the downhill slide in both its theology and practice is inevitable.

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible's Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity

The advent of postmodernism, the enshrinement of Darwinian orthodoxy in the educational systems of Western society, and the rise of blatant humanism as the religion-by-default of large subcultures have brought no end of new challenges to biblical suf...

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible's Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something e...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

What is so special about a title? The mode and significance of titles have changed with the change in the lyrical traditions. So these transitions in style and the art of signification are all collective. What has never changed is the author's intent...

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Basically, if the author is totally un-educated, then the text won't bring out his best. Normal, educated people always understand that. But here's the thing—when the author is very highly-educated, the result is the same: the text turns out sub-pa...

Life

Discussions of the effects of serial publication of Victorian novels on their authors and readers1 usually draw attention to the author's peculiar opportunities for cliff-hanging suspense, as, for instance, when Thackeray has Becky Sharp counter old ...

The Brontes: A Collection of Critical Essays

That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

Dreams

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Foundation

Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.

Fall of Night

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be, Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties; - 25 -

Goals of Life

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Phil Ochs

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

Holy Bible: King James Version

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

The Metaphysics of Morals

His moral lecture blazed with hate. What could have driven a child that far?

Markings

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

My Own Story

Las ideas religiosas, morales, sociales, políticas, no son sino manifestaciones del un desequilibrio del sistema nervioso.

La colmena

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Moral Essays, Volume III: de Beneficiis