Quotes about Morality

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws, but every one would of himself at all times do good works, as his confidence in God teaches him.

He who sleeps does not sin.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.

For I shall never advise a heathen or a Turk, let alone a Christian, to attack another or begin war.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";

So we are not sinners because we commit this or that sin, but we commit them because we are sinners first.