Frank Peretti Quotes

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.