Quotes about Morality
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
— CS Lewis
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
— Dante Alighieri
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
— Albert Einstein
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
— JC Ryle
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Love God, and do what you like.
— St. Augustine
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
— DL Moody
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
— St. Augustine
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
— Mark Twain
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
— Mortimer Adler