Quotes about Ethics
No One Is a Relativist at the Bank
— John Piper
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
— John Piper
Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.
— John Piper
There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord of glory. The fulfiller of history. The judge of the universe.
— John Piper
There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.
— John Piper
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
— John Piper
self-interest is not the same as selfishness.
— John Piper
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
— John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?
— John Wesley
October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
— John Wesley