Quotes about Ethics

The honor of a nation is its life.

Legalism at one extreme (keep all the rules) and license at the other (reject any rules) are both completely wrong answers to the question of how Christians should live.

An Israelite could not have sung the familiar song 'God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me' (though the words echo the Psalms) without being reminded also of its ethical consequence: 'God asks me to show that goodness to others.

porn stars are only objects for our sexual gratification, not real people.

For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in

Morality is truth in full bloom.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.