Quotes about Ethics
If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.
— Joyce Meyer
Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.
— Joyce Meyer
Don't ever flirt with sin.
— Joyce Meyer
Character is doing what you don't want to do, but know you should do. There's plenty of room and company on the broad road, but it's not easy to walk on that narrow path.
— Joyce Meyer
Our conscience works like an inward monitor that beeps when we step out of line.
— Joyce Meyer
Don't use people to get money and things, but be committed to using money and material goods to bless people. Rich people can do a lot of good for society if they are willing.
— Joyce Meyer
There is nothing wrong about having feelings, as long as you do what is right.
— Joyce Meyer
We need to be like the ant. We need to be the kind of people who are self-motivated and self-disciplined, those who do what is right because it is right, not because someone may be looking or because someone is making us do it.
— Joyce Meyer
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
— Walt Whitman
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
— Walt Whitman
The royal dynasty of King David, as portrayed in the biblical text, was a tax-collecting, labor-exploiting, surplus-wealth-exhibiting regime.
— Walter Brueggemann
The point that prophetic imagination must ponder is that there is no freedom of God without the politics of justice and compassion, and there is no politics of justice and compassion without a religion of the freedom of God.
— Walter Brueggemann