Blameworthy Quotes

#1. Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will ... weep that you did not change.8

Daniel L. Akin

#2. Lord, it is true that people are saying and doing things to me that I don't deserve. But you know that my heart is filled with selfish, foolish, unkind thoughts that are blameworthy. So protect me from becoming bitter or proud through this. I commit my reputation and cause to you. Amen.

Timothy Keller

#3. There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

Hesiod

#4. Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. "They

John Piper

#5. Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth ...

Vincent De Paul

#6. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

Plato

#7. Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it - so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse.

Emil Cioran

#11. If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.

Bill Burr

#12. Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.

Elton Trueblood

#13. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

#14. The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

Anita Diament

#15. We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen.

Glen Duncan

#16. Before it occurred to me that I might actually need an agent, I had generated well over three million dollars' worth of income, a good deal of it for the publisher.

Stephen King

#17. Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design ... fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

Edward Tufte

#18. There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr