MORALITY - (VIRTUE)

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“Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well spoken of, whatever things are virtuous, whatever things are praiseworthy, continue considering these things.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 4:8 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Morality is truth in full bloom. – Victor Hugo (Author / Writer / Poet) - (1802 -1885)

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. – Unknown

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal (French mathematician / Catholic theologian / physicist / inventor / philosopher / writer) - (1623-1662)

 “Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch to Scout – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Liberty cannot be established without morality, not morality without faith. – Alexis de Tocqueville (French historian / political philosopher / writer) - (1805- 1859)

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one—Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck - (American humorist / columnist / writer) - (1927-1996)   

No! – Probably the most used quote in human history

People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what isconvenient—then repent. – Bob Dylan

Is anybody at Time Warner embarrassed by these by these lyrics?  Will the executives at Time Warner stand up and say these things in public?  We’re not talking about censorship—we’re talking about citizenship. – (Referring to Ice T’s rap record COP KILLER) – William Bennett – (1995) Former Secretary of Education. – (Conservative politician / commentator)

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton (American statesman) - (1755-1804)

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its boots on. – Winston Churchill

Only two kinds of people can talk without inhibitions—strangers or lovers.  Everything in between is just negotiating. – James Grippando – THE INFORMANT (American novelist)              

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato                   

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

“I know a way out of hell.  Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed, a little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one. – Ben Kingsley as Gandhi to a Hindu murderer. – GANDHI – John Briley (Screenplay)

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“For this very reason, put forth all earnest effort to supply to your faith virtue, to your virtue knowledge, to your knowledge self-control, to your self-control endurance, to your endurance godly devotion, to your godly devotion brotherly affection, to your brotherly affection, love.” – Apostle Peter – 2 Pet. 1: 5, 6 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. – Victor Hugo

It has been my experience that folks with no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln     

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.  To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. – Buddha

Journalism without a moral position is impossible.  Every journalist is a moralist.  It’s absolutely unavoidable. – Marguerite Duras (French novelist / playwright / screenwriter / essayist) - (1914-1996)

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. – Voltaire (French Enlightenment writer / historian / philosopher) - (1694-1778)

“I simply want to tell you there are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.  Your father is one of them.” – Miss Maudie (neighbor) to Jem (Phillip Alford) – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – (Horton Foote screenplay)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to ponder and reflect. – Mark Twain                                                   

Wisdom is knowing what to do next—Skill is knowing how to do it—Virtue is doing it. – YES!

Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity in the world, you must make an attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion, that’s art, that’s life. – Phil Ochs (American singer / songwriter) - (1940-1976)

‘They’ told us that, if we’d relax, take our clothes off, and not get all uptight about it, that there would be no more sex crimes.  So we let it all hang out—and the incidence of rape increased 10% in one year. – Paul Harvey

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience.  It’s a tough lesson. – Elon Musk

How times have changed!  A few generations ago songs were about love and romance. Most songs are now about sex and violence.  And we wonder why modern relationships suffer? – Gary Pulliam

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God. – Albert Einstein

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. – John Shimkus (American politician)

Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant (German Enlightenment philodopher) (1724-1804)              

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 “But if anyone thinks he is behaving improperly by remaining unmarried, and if he is past the bloom of youth, then this is what should take place: Let him do what he wants; he does not sin.  Let them marry.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 10:36 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. – Mohandas Gandhi    

Have your spouse as the standard of beauty.  This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography; you lust after people and compare your spouse to them.  It’s impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don’t have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse. – Mark Driscoll (American pastor / writer)

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. – Plato

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. – J. G. Ballard (English novelist / writer) - (1930-2009)

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

Pornography tells lies about women.  But pornography tells the truth about men. – John Stoltenberg (American author / writer / playwright / activist)

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked man than it is loved by the good. – Buddha

I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. – Oscar Wilde (Irish poet / playwright / author.) - (1854-1900)

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see?  Movies are attempting to destroy something that’s the most beautiful thing a man and woman can have by making it by making it cheap and common.  It’s what you don’t see that’s attractive. – Nancy Reagan

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition led to the rise of gang problems we have. – Drew Carey

In today’s world the availability of pornography is ubiquitous on the Internet.  We do not have to look for such sites—they look for us! – Gary Pulliam

Beware of the woman who thinks much of her glory, but little of her reputation. – Victor Hugo

Saying I’m Christian and gay proves nothing. The question shouldn’t be, can a person be homosexual and still belong to God?  But rather, is homosexuality right or wrong according to the Bible? – Joe Dallas (writer & former homosexual)

An FBI academy report found that 86% of all rapists interviewed regularly consumed pornography. – Charles Colson (American politician / writer

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 “Everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion forher has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 5:28 – Apostle Matthew – The HOLY SCRIPTURES                                           

The demand for porn, like the demand for drugs, is an addiction that feeds on the notion that there is no value above immediate self-gratification.  The root of the problem, likely is people are addicted to an idea—that life is lived for personal pleasure alone.  – Charles Colson                

Character is who we are in the dark. – Dwight Moody (American evangelist / writer) - (1837-1899)

An innocuous-looking email, once opened, may explode into a pornographic picture designed in such a way as to make exiting from it difficult.  Even if a person gets only a glimpse of it before deleting it, the image has already made an impression on his mind.  – Gary Pulliam

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. – Andy Warhol (American artist / filmmaker) - (1928-1987)

I’ve used it and people who have seen it say it has value in helping them understand their feelings.  It is healthy to show a movie like DEEP THROAT. – Rev. Ted McIlvenna – (After showing the porn film to 300 to 400 people as a sexologist in 1971)

You know that look women get when they want sex?  Me neither. – Drew Carey

Pornography appeals to the selfish passions pandering to satisfying  personal desires, whether one is married or not.  Love centers on satisfying the needs of one’s mate, pornography leads to inconsiderate and self-centered sex, which becomes demeaning and unloving.  Rather than strengthening marital love, pornography kills it by degrading it and distorting it.  This is not reality—it’s fantasy! – Magazine viewpoint – Sept. 1991                       

Pornography leads to mental images not easily erased, like a tattoo on your mind. – Matt Fradd (Religious writer and researcher)                                  

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope?  If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t. – George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright) - (1856-1950)

Sex is part of nature.  I go along with nature. – Marilyn Monroe

Happiness is a good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman—or a bad woman.  It depends on how much happiness you can handle. – George Burns

Societies and civilization cannot survive unless they are populated by people who act on motives superior to their own self-interests.  To curb the demand, we must re-educate an entire generation that there are values in life more important than self-gratification. here are absolutes. – Charles Colson

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. – Karl Marx

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 “Let the marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 13:4 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES                                                             

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. – Erica Jong (American novelist)

“Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but whoever practices sexual immorality is sinning against his own body.” Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 6:18 – HOLY SCRIPTURES      

 “I have made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I show improper attention to a virgin?” – Moses – Job 31:1 – HOLY SCRIPTURES