Quotes about Morality

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.