Moralism Quotes

#1. Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

#2. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#3. From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Immanuel Kant

#4. I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

Cathy Rigby

#5. Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:

Michael S. Horton

#6. Once Christianity is no longer seen as part and parcel of patriotism, the church must offer more than "What would Jesus do?" moralism and the "I vote values" populism to which we've grown accustomed.

Russell D. Moore

#7. The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Glenn Greenwald

#8. Would you please be open to the possibility that the gospel, real Christianity, is something very different from religion? That gives many people hope that there is a way to know God that doesn't lead to the pathologies of moralism and religiosity.

Timothy Keller

#9. if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism. That

Barack Obama

#10. I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.

Cara Delevingne

#11. The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

Timothy J. Keller

#12. Postmodern people have been rejecting Christianity for years, thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism.

Timothy Keller

#13. Angel I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It's only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?

Kirsty Moseley

#14. When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. The moralism that passes for Christian faith today is a devastating hobby if you have no intention of submitting your life fully to God and chasing him in Christ.

Matt Chandler

#16. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Selena Kitt

#17. From the driver's side, one of Echo's jean-clad legs dangled.
"I've got a hard-on just looking at her, man," said Isaiah as we strolled up the drive.
"You're ate up," I replied, hoping he meant the car, not Echo. I'd hate to throw down with someone I considered family.

Katie McGarry

#18. Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.

Brennan Manning

#19. Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Robert Farrar Capon

#20. And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.

Barack Obama

#21. History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Samantha Power

#22. Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a
solipsist.

Kedar Joshi

#24. The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

#25. Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

Drake

#26. Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Richard Rohr

#27. The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

Kevin DeYoung

#28. The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Being Lutheran is about having the theological roadblocks cleared away. No good works. No law pretending to be Gospel. No popes or piety. No moralism. Just the Gospel loudly and clearly proclaimed.

A. Trevor Sutton

#30. Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

Alain De Botton

#31. Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.

C.S. Lewis

#32. I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

A. N. Wilson

#33. Create your own style ... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Anna Wintour