Moral Innocence Quotes

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Nobody is born evil.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is inherently sinful and carries sin and needs to be cleaned in order for it to be all right and all good with its creator, I just think that's an absurd notion.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .