In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.
Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.
There are all kinds of great things that megachurches and successful fundraising appeals can allow you to do, especially in terms of overseas charity work, and so on. I'm just arguing that American Christians need to recognize the temptations that can expose you to as well.
To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
If generations past could get things so badly wrong, then we are forever vulnerable as well, and the moral utility of history may well lie in its capacity to remind ourselves that we qre always at risk of falling short in the unendng search to perfect the union.
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long smooth-sounding words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless..
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.
You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.
Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
