Quotes about Morality

Don't expect your success to carry you in life. Rather, let your success be carried by your character.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

Christian ethics is not a matter of discovering what's going on in the world and getting in tune with it. It isn't a matter of doing things to earn God's favor. It is not about trying to obey dusty rulebooks from long ago or far away. It is about practicing, in the present, the tunes we shall sing in God's new world.

the line between good and evil does not lie between "us" and "them," between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

The day the church can no longer say, "We must obey God rather than human beings" (Acts 5:29), it ceases to be the church.

The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

It is one thing to insist on walking south when the compass is pointing north. But to "fix" the compass so that it tells you that the wrong way is the right way is far, far worse. You can correct a mistake. But once you tell yourself it wasn't a mistake there's no way back.

How much easier to produce moral musings than present the fresh challenge of the kingdom!

The line between good and evil runs, not between 'us' and 'them', but down the middle of each of us.

There are temptations to idolatry at every level, and the greater the good the greater the temptation.