moral vigilance Quotes

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

We don't know where the lines should be drawn. Which to me means that we people of goodwill have to bend over backwards to be scrupulous, to be exceedingly careful about code words, about messages, so as not to inflame the evil angels in our nature, if you will.

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.