Moral Change Quotes

If Catholic moral doctrines have changed, how can the church still claim to preach the same message Jesus and his disciples did?

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.

Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.