Richard L. Evans Quotes

Rereading, we find a new book.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

What would Jesus have done in precisely similar situations?

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

There are certain transfers you simply don't do. This has a lot to do with respect: respect for tradition and the fans.

Martial arts is about honor and respect.

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

When people ask me what's really important about my father, I think the most important thing about him was his moral imagination.

Culture is a reflection of values.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly