Quotes about Morality

our material riches unfortunately imply a spiritual, cultural, and moral poverty that are perhaps far greater than we see.

The one thing that seems to me morally certain is that this was really a grace, and a great grace.

For whatever is demanded by truth, by justice, by mercy, or by love must surely be taken to be willed by God.

Once you have grace, I said to him, you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do, and that you know you don't really want to do.

Excerpt from Cracking the Safe: Thus what the world calls good business is only a way To gather up the loot, pack it, make it secure In one convenient load for the more enterprising thieves. Who is there, among those called smart, Who does not spend his time amassing loot For a bigger robber than himself?

Hence, too, the man who sins in spite of himself but does not love his sin, is not a sinner in the full sense of the word.

There are different kinds of fear. One of the most terrible is the sensation that you are likely to become, at any moment, the protagonist in a Graham Greene novel: the man who tries to be virtuous and who is, in a certain sense, holy, and yet who is overwhelmed by sin as if there were a kind of fatality about it.

ANOTHER characteristic of the devil's moral theology is the exaggeration of all distinctions between this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.

One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.

Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.

Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine

you cannot have a political solution for a spiritual problem. You must have spiritual solutions for spiritual problems!