Quotes about Morality
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
— Abraham Lincoln
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
— Confucius
When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
— AW Tozer
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
— Roger Williams
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
— CS Lewis
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
— FF Bruce
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
— Cicero
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— CS Lewis
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
— John Owen
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
— Pope John Paul II
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
— Thomas Jefferson