Quotes about Morality

Everything is permissible'—but not everything is beneficial" (1 Corinthians 10:23).

As soon as sin was their choice, the cover of darkness was their preference.

Everything is permissible'—but not everything is beneficial" (1 Corinthians 10:23).

Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand.

Soul integrity is honesty that's godly.

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

This generosity of spirit-this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal-is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive. It is a capacity that can be found in most people, but it is not always nurtured and is sometimes, for a period, brutally crushed.

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.

When it comes to the moral question, it is not simply whether we say yes or no to desire, but always what we do with desire. Christianity recognizes that we have desire gone mad within us. But it does not seek to rectify the problem by killing desire; rather, it seeks the healing of desire, just as it seeks the healing of every other part of our human being.

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

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