Quotes about Ethics
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
— John Knox
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
— Rick Warren
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
— Stanley Hauerwas
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
— William Wilberforce
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
— CS Lewis
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
— RC Sproul
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
— Charles Hodge
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
— George Eliot
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
— John Wooden
Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion.
— Dennis Prager
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
— Dallas Willard