Moral Reckoning Quotes

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

History will absolve me.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

When I was five - it's not even bad - I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

America has to learn -- if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come!

In ancient Greece, a crisis was a period of judgment. It’s healthy for a country to go through a crisis.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

With a certain amount of time, people can't be crucified for what they've done wrong. It's what I always tell people.

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.