Quotes about Ethics

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more harm than good). Memory places obligations upon you. The Israelites were to remember their experience of servitude in Egypt, and treat their servants accordingly.

The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God and others with our whole heart. When we ignore this heart aspect of our faith and try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled, or perverted, and the divorce of our soul from the heart purposes of God toward us is deepened.

Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.

How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

What we do flows from who we are.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.