Quotes about Morality
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
— GK Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— GK Chesterton
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
— GK Chesterton
if you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.
— Gary Thomas
But if someone's character has no foundation, there's nothing to build on.
— Gary Thomas
Sin never seems quite as shocking when it is known only to us; when we see how it looks or sounds to another, it is magnified ten times over.
— Gary Thomas
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
— Brigham Young
People really don't want such a direct encounter with God because then they have no excuse if they disobey Him. God's laws are so black-and-white. We'd rather be free to choose if we will follow Him in any given situation.
— Brother Andrew
It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.
— Brother Andrew
if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
— Herman Melville
and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
— Herman Melville
if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
— Herman Melville