Quotes about Morality
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
— Confucius
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
— GK Chesterton
If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.
— Martin Luther
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
— Martin Niemoller
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
— CS Lewis
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
— CS Lewis
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
— Martin Luther