Quote#World
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for…
Quote byNathanael Emmons · 1745–1840
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 1..
English (original)
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.
— Nathanael Emmons
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