Jerry Falwell Quotes

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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?