Moral Discernment Quotes

#1. To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.

Richard B. Hays

#2. It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy

#3. Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Samuel Richardson

#4. A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Bagehot

#5. I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.

Kellan Lutz

#6. All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Janette Turner Hospital

#7. Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.

Robert Anthony

#8. The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.

Zoran Djindjic

#9. I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

Pete Maravich

#10. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.

Liz Fenton

#11. Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

William Lloyd Garrison

#12. The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

Vince Staples

#13. His worried face falls away and is replaced with what can only be described as a glow--like someone who has a terrific secret and they're about to let you in on it.

Katie Clark

#14. Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number ...

Junot Diaz

#15. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Criss Jami

#16. When will he be as he was?' Dany demanded.
'When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east' said Mirri Maz Duur. 'When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.

George R R Martin

#17. When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would not have appeared strange to his countrymen at any time.']

Michael Oakeshott