Quotes about Morality

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Be good and you will be lonely.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?

And so our reclamation project has been, for me, less a matter of idealism or morality than a kind of self-preservation. A destructive history, once it is understood as such, is a nearly insupportable burden. Understanding it is a disease of understanding, depleting the sense of efficacy and paralyzing effort, unless it finds healing work." Excerpt From The World-Ending Fire Wendell Berry This material may be protected by copyright.

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.