Moral Warning Quotes

In our present day, our Lord God has given us a grand warning in the form of AIDS. A warning to those who subject their bodies to such defilement. Unfortunately people are no longer fearful, even of such a dreadful disease.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

I was sorely exercised in going to their courts to cry for justice, in speaking and writing to judges and justices to do justly; in warning such as kept public houses for entertainment that they should not let people have more drink than would do them good; in testifying against wakes, feasts, May-games, sports, plays, and shows, which trained up people to vanity and looseness, and led them from the fear of God; and the days set forth for holidays were usually the times wherein they most dishonoured God by these things.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

Perhaps they will laugh at or make light of this; but I tell you Americans! that unless you speedily alter your course of continuing slavery, you and your Country are gone!!!!!! For God Almighty will tear up the very face of the earth!!!...

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.