Quotes about Morality

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!

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.