Charles Dickens Quotes

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

My moral standing is lying down.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!