Quotes about Morality
A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.
— Confucius
I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.
— Cormac McCarthy
How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?
— Cormac McCarthy
Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
— Cormac McCarthy
Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.
— Cormac McCarthy
No, Professor, it aint nothin like that. You dont have to be virtuous. You just has to be quiet. I cant speak for the Lord but the experience I've had leads me to believe that he'll speak to anybody that'll listen. You damn sure aint got to be virtuous.
— Cormac McCarthy
The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
— Cormac McCarthy
Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.
— Cormac McCarthy
I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.
— Cormac McCarthy
I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?
— Craig Blomberg