moral debt Quotes

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.