Quotes about Morality

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Here, then, is the origin and rise of government: namely, a mode rendered necessary by inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz, freedom and security.

It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It

Of more worth is one honeset man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.