10 Quotes to Help You Preserve Your Moral Sanity

Townhall.com ^ | October 6, 2015 | Michael Brown

[Kaslin]

More than once in the last few years I’ve asked myself the question, “Has the whole world gone mad? Has everyone in our society lost the ability to think clearly? Are people no longer able to process facts and information? Are they so dominated by their emotions and by sound bites that truth and logic don’t seem to matter?”

I remember vividly talking to a young man at a rally in Charlotte, NC a few months ago. The rally was surrounding the so-called “bathroom bill” that would have made all of the city’s public bathrooms and locker rooms gender-neutral.

This young man, who was in favor of the bill, told me that it was “primitive” for hospitals to determine the gender of a baby (as in, “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!”) based on the baby’s biological and chromosomal sex. Primitive! Instead, gender was whatever you perceived it to be – presumably at any given point in time.

How do you reason with someone like that? What facts can you present to change their minds? And what do you say to someone who says, “If you believe you’re a horse, you can use the stable?” (That was another conversation I had that night.)

In times like this, it’s good to remember some of these quotes. They will help you preserve your moral sanity.

1. “In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” (George Orwell). Even if the whole world has gone mad, speak the truth anyway. It’s the revolutionary thing to do.

2. “Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.” (G. K. Chesterton) Right and wrong have never been determined by majority rule or by societal trends or by public opinion. So do what is right because it is right.

3. “For we can do nothing against the truth but only for the truth.” (The apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 13:8) Kingdoms will come and go; giant mountains will crumble into the dust; the entire physical world will be shaken one day. But God’s truth will remain stable and firm. Be sure to stand with the truth, not against it.

4. “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” (Augustine) Be bold. Propagate the truth. Get the message out without apology. The truth will fight for itself.

5. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” (Billy Graham) Why not determine to be that brave man or woman? If you do this in your private life you will soon be doing it in your public life. Perhaps you’ll actually help spark a revolution.

6. “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” (G. K. Chesterton) Are you dead or alive? Then prove it by swimming against the tide and going against the grain.

7. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” (C. S. Lewis) If you live to please God, you will never be disappointed. He sees your heart and He knows the truth, and when no one else is watching, He is watching intently.

8. “Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But, conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) Now is that time. Enough said.

9. “The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40:7-8) Count on it. When the names of the most famous men and women of this generation are long forgotten, God’s Word will be standing strong.

10. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.” (Jesus, Matthew 24:35) Count on this too. When the boasts and threats of radical Islam no longer exist, when the mockery of the new atheists is remembered with pity, when the voice of the hostile media is no longer heard, when internet is looked at as a primitive antique, the words of Jesus will still be revered.

So, with this in mind, keep on doing what is right and speaking what is right and living what is right. You will be vindicated in the end.

[Responsibility2nd]

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[Skooz]

bfl

[trisham]

Thank you, Kaslin.

[surroundedbyblue]

I had a 7th grade math teacher who hung a poster in his classroom “what is right is not always what’s popular; and what is popular is not always what’s right”

I never forgot that. Now that I have my own child, I tell her the same

[GOPJ]

Thanks

[Stand Watch Listen]

Related FR thread:

What are your favorite quotes?

What are some of your favorite quotes? Here are a few of mine:
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. – Voltaire
The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness. - Bruce Lee
Any fool can commit a murder; a suicide requires a real professional. – Genrikh Yagoda Chief of the NKVD during the early 1930s
Socialists can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave.

[trisham]

Thanks for the ping!

[GOPJ]

“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Expediency ask the question, is it politic?

Vanity asks the question, is it popular?

But, conscience ask the question, is it right?

And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

My favorite ...

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep

[just me]

"Socialists can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave."

Good one..

[Berlin_Freeper]

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." George Orwell

[MrB]

Related:

H.L. Mencken — ‘Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.’

[Conservative4Ever]

Thanks for this article, it is excellent.

[metmom]

Thank you

[boatbums]

Amen! I would add:

Be faithful in the little things...the big things will then be taken care of.

“He that is faithful in that which is least will also be faithful in that which is much.” - Jesus (Luke 16:10)

[Elsie]

I guess you’ve beaten me to emphasizing it!

[GOPJ]

:)

[RipSawyer]

“More than once in the last few years I’ve asked myself the question, “Has the whole world gone mad? Has everyone in our society lost the ability to think clearly? Are people no longer able to process facts and information? Are they so dominated by their emotions and by sound bites that truth and logic don’t seem to matter?”

Answer to all those questions, NO, not ALL but a large percentage definitely.

[Elsie]

“Has the whole world gone mad?

...or just America??

I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 

 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)

 

 

But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,

and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing

of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.

Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.

 

 

I hear that by now, somewhere around 55 MILLION of them have perished.

Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and

retirement?

 

 

 

 

 

Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses

before they are ALL dead!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 

 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)

 

 

But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,

and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing

of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.

Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.

 

 

I hear that by now, somewhere around 55 MILLION of them have perished.

Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and

retirement?

 

 

 

 

 

Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses

before they are ALL dead!