Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment